On 12/27/09 02:09 PM, Brian Cameron wrote: > > > The new GDM does not support gdmgreeter style themes. > > Note that the GNOME community is in the process of deprecating > libgnomecanvas. The old gdmgreeter used libgnomecanvas to support its > themes, and since the upstream GNOME community made it a requirement > that usage of libgnomecanvas needed to be removed, it was necessary > to drop support for the gdmgreeter and its themes. > > There is discussion in the upstream GDM community about how themes > should be support moving forward. Should GDM be ported to use a more > modern canvas such as libgoocanvas, or should it be rewritten to use > something like OpenGL? > > Note that the new GDM does support some degree of theming, though it > does not support the old gdmgreeter XML theme format. You can look at > how Ubuntu has themed it to see an example of how the new GDM can be > made to look exciting. > > The new GDM uses a standard .glade file for the login window, and it > can be customized to change the appearance of the window. Also the > background image and logo used in the new GDM can be specified. > Thanks for the response. It's nice that people are trying to improve GDM, but what I see is not an improvement but a regression in functionality. It was behaving perfectly previously, why fix whats not broke. Maybe all this was to add Face Browser Mode. I've always made fun of Windows NT (when it first came out) how they had to hit ctrl-alt-del to login. Why the extra keystroke. Now Opensolaris has it in the form of a click on login, if only one person uses the computer, I like to just enter my login information without any additional clicks. Maybe Face Browser Mode can satisfy my requirements if one click on the face is equivalent to the login name and all I have to then is enter my password. But since it's off by default, I haven't seen any way to turn it on yet. I'd like to try it. I'd also like to see the shutdown button there, sometimes I turn on my computer and never use it and just need to shutdown, it would be nice to do this without logging in.
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