On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 11:25 -0400, Christopher L Tubbs II wrote: > 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. But when I (like many) upgrade from one version of fedora to the next, the /home partition is the only thing that is preserved. The rest of the file system is replaced with a new one (often including a format). So /etc isn't going to still contain this images. I suspect most users (and sysadmins, don't want to have to replace the images each time the upgrade and having them in /home is a good place to preserve them across installs. R. -- "It's a fine line between denial and faith. It's much better on my side" -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
