Change the screensaver login screen?

[Garrett LeSage]

Bill Nottingham wrote:

>Rodolfo J. Paiz (rpaiz at simpaticus.com) said: 
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>>At 14:30 11/10/2003, you wrote:
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>>>The main issue is that it's preferred that the app that be checking
>>>the passwords not be linked against all the GUI libraries. So it
>>>would require rearchtecting the dialog into two parts.
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>>Even if you didn't do that much heavy lifting, could I register this 
>>message as an RFE for a login screen that isn't so butt-ugly and primitive? 
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>No, because making it prettier *requires* linking against all the
>GUI libs...
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...Or maintaining a patch which would change the colors, the 3d border 
effect, and alter a compiled-in graphic.  It could be messy.

There's always asking upstream to fix it in certain ways too.

Garrett