GDM still from gnome 2.2 and contains lots of bugs :(
Hi,
There are plans to release gdm for gnome 2.4 ?
Several new stable versions of gdm released by upstream - for example
2.4.4.0, 2.4.4.1, 2.4.4.2, 2.4.4.3, 2.4.4.4, 2.4.4.5 with lots of important
changes (look for example at new graphical face bowser at
http://art.gnome.org/images/thumbnails/gdm_greeter/GDM-Cropcircles.png):
- Completely new session setup, born out of discussions with Oswald
Buddenhagen, the KDM maintainer, which will bring about common session
setup for both GDM and KDM. We now basically have a common
/etc/X11/dm/Sessions directory where there are .desktop files are stored
which describe sessions and these will be shared among KDM and GDM.
Among other things this also makes the face browser default to using
~/.face and the per user saved info is in ~/.dmrc
(I think this is very importand for debian)
- The greeter.dtd is updated and there is theme creation documentation
(Brian Cameron, Aidan Butler, me)
- A face browser for the graphical greeter. This is selecting by selecting
a theme that implements it. Add happygnome-list which does.
(Patrizio Bruno, me)
- The standard greeter has a GtkTreeView based face browser based on the
new one from the graphical greeter.
- Accesibility work. Add posibility of adding modules to the greeter
through AddGtkModules and GtkModulesList. Add guesture listeners. Dwell
mouse events. (Niall Power, Brian Cameron)
- Attempt at getting things HIG-ified
- Add a "Delete theme" button to gdmsetup, add a scroll window to the
theme preview, fixes #110302 and #104757
- PAM now asks for username itself. This made LocalNoPasswordUsers
impossible, and so that was removed. This way hopefully we should work
with some more pam setups, such as smartcard ones. Fixes issues from
#106537
People reported bugs about this, but no answer from maintainer :( See
this bugreport: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=220492
For more info about new gdm look at this bugreport:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=197321&archive=yes
Btw, gdm contains lots of unfixed bugs, look at bugs.debian.org/gdm :(
It seems debian gdm maintainer doesn't have time to fix bugs, for example
default language bug is about 2 years old, This bug exists from these times,
when I started to use Gnome from debian unstable !!! (previous I used Gnome
from Stormix and from HelixCode)
Same with poweroff (restart) bug - some people already wroten patch for
this, why this patch isn't in Debian ?
Maybe debian-gnome team should help to maintain such important package like
gdm ?
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