On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 08:46 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 12:56 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 07:44 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 10:53 +0300, regatta wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > I know many people will not like me :) , but this just a question > > > > please don´t hate me :) > > > > > > > > is there any plan to drop xscreensaver or at less do a heavy change on > > > > it (the ugly lock login didn´t change since I think gnome 2 or even > > > > before and always you have to reboot your machine if you lock the > > > > screen and your keyboard layout is not English when you lock the > > > > screen because you can´t change the language back to English to enter > > > > your password !!) > > > > > > Someone needs to write a secure replacement. Locking should be handled > > > by GDM IMO. > > > > There's already a replacement, and it's called gnome-screensaver, and is > > in GNOME CVS right now. > > Some people had some problems with it becoming a replacement. Not sure > what they were and I haven't investigated it myself. Has it been vetted > yet for security issues? The biggest problem with xscreensaver type > locking is that if xscreensaver crashes your session is unlocked. This > is why the author didn't want to link against external libraries if it > could be avoided (and why we get ugly dialog). Replacing it with > something else doesn't really solve any problems other than making it > look better. I think we need to get GDM to start doing the locking. > That way if it crashes the session exits. If we do that then we can use > anything for a screensaver app.
Please read the original thread, all of this has already been discussed: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/24408 --- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's beautiful, it's like a monkey. -- Jean-Claude Van Damme _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
