GDM Greeter

[Christopher L Tubbs II]

David Boles wrote:
> Christopher L Tubbs II wrote:
>> David Boles wrote:
>>> Chris Ricker wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 6 May 2008, Alan Cox wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Certainly it would be iffy in a public location in the EU as well 
>>>>> and in
>>>>> some environments would prevent deployment in that form.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've always just used gdmsetup to fix it: Pick a style without face
>>>>> browser
>>>>
>>>> That's what everyone's complaining about -- gdm 2.22 shipping in F9 
>>>> lacks the gdmsetup functionality of 2.20 and older releases...
>>>
>>>
>>> Then everyone should read this:
>>>
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NewGdm?highlight=(gdm)|(greeter)
>>>
>>> and this:
>>>
>>> http://live.gnome.org/GDM/2.22/Configuration
>>>
>>> and stop complaining.  ;-)
>>>
>>
>> The link on fedoraproject.org that you gave states "gdmsetup got 
>> replaced by a yet-to-be-written new configuration tool"
>>
>> Most of our suggestions/complaints will likely be addressed by that 
>> tool, but until it's actually written and delivered, we'll probably 
>> continue to complain... :)
> 
> 
> Welcome to Rawhide.  ;-)
> 
> Read my links a little more closely. Especially the second one which 
> came from the first one. You can edit with a text editor untill the GUI 
> is ready.
> 

Actually, I did read both links, but the biggest complaint so far seems 
to be the inability to disable the "smarter way of displaying user 
names" entirely, and the faces, which don't appear to be configuration 
options via a GUI or otherwise...

By the time a GUI is written, that should probably have changed...

Rainman


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