On 2/28/07, Yen-Ju Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I notice some bugs are related to the login. As far as I understand, the login is simply a theme for GDM. Since I haven't have a chance to try the LiveCD (too lazy ...), maybe we can put the GDM theme in Etoile svn. In that case, I can help to fix some trivial problems.
Nope, the login is not a theme for GDM -- I did such a theme at first, but it was way too unflexible for me.. So there's now a Login.app, a true gnustep app :-) The trick was to discover that GDM uses a separate process running in userland to display the graphical login dialog -- it then communicate with it through pipes, with a simple protocol. That's how GDM has one Gtk login panel and one with xml themes. So Login.app is simply called by GDM and communicate with it. The great thing is that there's nothing to do security wise, all the work is done by GDM! which is why it was so quick to create a login panel :) I didn't commit it to the repository yet, but I'll do it by friday or saturday. I also coded sunday a simple "TeX" editor application that provides a service, a bit like the old LaTeXService I wrote a while ago, but with a simple UI. I'll also commit it. It was very cool to demonstrate the services during the fosdem talk and explain NSDataLink. -- Nicolas Roard "La perfection, ce n'est pas quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, c'est quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher." -- Antoine de St-Exupéry _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
