Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 16:27 -0400, Christopher L Tubbs II wrote:2) I can't seem to configure my "face" image. Putting a ".face" graphic in my home directory doesn't work, nor does configuring image with System->Preferences->Personal->About Me.What permissions do you have on your home directory ?The default, created by system-config-users: drwx------ And, .face has: -rw-r--r--This might not be correct for use with gdm, but at the very least, configuring with "About Me" utility should just work by default by setting the right permissions or prompting if permissions are not correct?Possibly. Although the 'bad surprise' factor is pretty big if some random capplet starts messing with your home direcory. It might be better to store the faces somewhere else.
I think storing faces elsewhere is a good idea... 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.
1. For one, it would be nice to disable faces. Sometimes it's okay, and sometimes it's just annoying.2. It would also be nice to be able to choose how usernames are selected to appear in the list (even Windows can do this with TweakUI), whether by UID range (i.e. > 500 or whatever), or specified list. (A good configuration utility might have two columns, one column of available names and one column of selected names, with arrows between to add remove available names to/from selected names for listing).The idea with the user list is to populate it dynamically with only the users which have logged in before. As a compromise for existing systems, we have made it show all local users, which is what brings your test users into the list. Maybe we need a way to mark users as don't-show-in-user-list.
The idea is good. In fact, showing all local users (UID>500) is a good idea for a default list, but it definitely needs a way for an administrator to configure the exception of UID's from the list. Perhaps an /etc/greeter-users file with a slight modification to system-config-users to have a checkbox to "show user in login screen" (maybe a firstboot modification for users at install time also). Alternatively, a system group named "greeter-users". Only members of this group will show up in the list.
3. The animation speed between clicking on username, and typing in password should be configurable (down to zero, so there is no delay). The login screen is for logging in, not for show, and the animation may be okay for some people, but most of us just want to login, and that means typing password immediately without waiting for animation.Here's a trick: cat "gtk-enable-animations=0" > /var/lib/gdm/.gtkrc-2.0 turns off the animation.
I assume you meant: echo "gtk-enable-animations=0" >> /var/lib/gdm/.gtkrc-2.0 Thanks, that's good to know! (This might need to be documented somewhere in release notes?) Of course, I'd still prefer a utility to configure it, but for now, I'll do this. (It works btw).
4. There should be an option to display or not display date/time, accessibility options, session options, and to configure the list of available sessions.I don't think there is a big chance that we're going to add a ton of hide-or-show-this-or-that-ui-element knobs. One central idea with thesimple greeter was to make it adapt instead of adding such knobs.
Yeah, I figured as much. As an administrator, though, it's nice to have such "knobs" available. Clicking a checkbox is a lot simpler than replacing the greeter with a custom one, for most admins. I have a feeling I'm not the only one who wouldn't mind such a simple feature in future versions. [snip]
On the flip side, the new gdm should hopefully make it easier to write alternative greeters, so that we don't have to shoehorn every possiblelogin scenario into a single greeter. One example to keep an eye on is http://macslow.thepimp.net/?p=163
I agree that the greeter should be minimal and should not attempt to address every possible scenario, but a few minimal tweaks are useful, and are noticeably absent (particularly excepting usernames from the list).
5. How about configuring the background or theme? with preview?Yes, configuring the background will be possible, it just didn't happen in time for F9. I implemented this last weekend, actually.
Cool. As somebody else mentioned, the greeter didn't quite fit the F9 theme. Having this will be an improvement. Rainman
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