Re: galeon-snapshot segfaults
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 04:12:35PM -0500, Sean Harshbarger wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 12:54, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > <quote who="Sven Luther">
> >
> > > galeon 2 should be part of the gnome 2.2 release (at least that were the
> > > plan back then in october i think)
> >
> > Whooooa, not in this lifetime (read: month). :-) Galeon was proposed but not
> > accepted (it wasn't ready, and didn't have maintainers to make it so).
> >
> > > and so there should be an official galeon 2 package in a month or so, if
> > > all goes well. Well, i hope there will be at least.
> >
> > Not likely, because Galeon is still in unstable 1.3.x development, and will
> > be for the forseeable future.
> >
> > > There is no official gdm2 package still, so maybe i am wrong in hoping
> > > this.
> >
> > That's just 'cos the Debian maintainer of gdm is a slacker... Someone should
> > NMU the sucker. :-)
Well, what about packaging a new gdm2 package, this way it would not be
a NMU, there would be an official maintainer of the gdm package, as
usual, and a new maintainer for the gdm2 package, and both would exist
in the distribution until things get sorted out.
I understand the reticence of the gdm maintainer who claims that gdm2
does not work reliabily on some of outr supported arches.
> I have the latest gdm2 package on my personal server.
> http://harshy.homelinux.org/files/debian/
> They are not offical ones, bug are indeed usable.
Yes, they are _much_ better than the previous ones i was using.
That said the localusernopassword doesn't seem to be working, and there
is still the problem about the background and fonts, which even if the
same between gdm2 and gnome, get reverted to a background color at the
begining of gnome2 startup.
Also, my last wish for this would be to have a way to have a list of
users which are allowed to shutdown or reboot (or maybe kill gdm and
revert to the console) from the gnome exit menu directly as root does. I
was told redhat does this altough they use a hack or something, and that
this is not an easy thing to do. I did this in gnome 1 by using the now
vanished gshutdown with sudo, but gshutdown was removed. I suppose the
best way of doing this is to have the gnome exit menu send some kind of
advice to gdm to reboot/shutdown the box. Maybe gdm could check this,
see if the user is allowed to reboot the box, and then do it. This way
gnome would exit properly, and gdm, which already handles this, does the
shutdown.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
>
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> Sean Harshbarger
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