GDM Greeter

[David Boles]

Christopher L Tubbs II wrote:
> 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...


Work in progress is always interesting. As I said, and as did the link(s) 
there is yet to be a GUI.

 From what I read 'they' are working on this and this.

A real 'tester', gee I dislike that name, would live with the short comings of 
Rawhide and deal with the problems. If you really need a GUI to setup your 
system, actually *if* can only use a GUI to setup your system, you should not 
really be using Rawhide. Rawhide is often broken for some reason or another. 
It is not for the faint of heart.


-- 


   David

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