GDM Greeter

[Christopher L Tubbs II]

Rodd Clarkson wrote:
[snip]
>> Perhaps the simplest idea, though, is to have gnome-about-me ask the
>> user if they'd like to modify home directory permissions to show face on
>> desktop, so at least, there's no surprises.
> 
> I'm just curious.  Where would you store them (other than the home
> directory) that would remain during updates.

Well, the images are already stored in the pixmaps directory, so you 
just need to store the path (if another path is specified that the 
greeter doesn't have permissions for, that's up to the user to make sure 
the permissions are correct). The path could be stored in an /etc/passwd 
type file (/etc/faces?), with a similar utility to allow each user to 
modify his/her own line (gnome-about-me could be modified to do it, but 
I'm not sure what this would involve).

An alternative approach that would not allow users to modify their own 
image is to make the utility that edits the /etc/faces file be 
system-config-users. If that was the case, the utility could also have a 
checkbox "include in greeter list", along with input box for image path.

Personally, I think the decision to have a username in the list is an 
administrator one, and the decision for the image is a user one.

Rainman


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