CVSROOT: /cvs/gnome
Module name: gdm2
Changes by: bcameron 05/12/20 17:09:37
Modified files:
gui : Makefile.am gdmchooser.c gdmconfig.c
gdmconfig.h gdmflexiserver.c gdmsetup.c
Log message:
2005-12-21 Brian Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
After two months, the redesign of GDM's internal configuration is
finally reaching a close. Now GDM users are instructed to not modify
the gdm.conf file directly and instead put any cutomizations in a
separate file called gdm.conf-custom (read the comments in both files).
gdmsetup now modifies the gdm.conf-custom file. The GDM daemon will
now use values in gdm.conf-custom first and the default values in
gdm.conf if no value is defined in gdm.conf-custom. Benefits:
1) Now GDM truly supports system-wide and machine-specific config.
System wide configuration is when the sysadmin wants to share the
main gdm.conf file across multiple systems on a shared file system
(possible by building GDM with the --with-configdir option or by
running GDM with the --config option). Specific systems can
override defaults by modifying the gdm.conf-custom file.
2) Distros can stomp the main gdm.conf file on upgrade knowing that any
user changes are stored in a separate file. For best backwards
compatibility, distros will need to move the gdm.conf file to
gdm.conf-custom if the gdm.conf file exists on the system but the
gdm.conf-custom file does not.
3) Making this work required a lot of cleanup in the way GDM manages
its configuration files. For example, now config options are
managed via access functions, and do not depend on non-static
globals being shared across files. The GET_CONFIG and UPDATE_CONFIG
commands work better and do not require special tweaking when adding
new config options. Vicious-extensions is now only included in a
few files that need to know how to access the config files directly.
This makes GDM support a popular feature in CDE which works similarly.
(config files in /etc/dt/config take precidence over the ones in
/usr/dt/config).
* daemon/gdmconfig.[ch]: Now supports reading configuration values
(including "servers" and "server-foo" sections from gdm.conf-custom
and then from gdm.conf if not found in the custom file. Now store
translated strings in a separate hash since this improves
performance. Fix GET_SERVER_DETAILS so it works better and
update config can now update server-foo sections via the
"xservers/PARMAETERS" key.
* gui/gdmsetup.c: Now only writes to the gdm.conf-custom file and isa
smart enough to just delete the key if the value will be the same as
in the gdm.conf file. Fixed some core dumping issues caused by my
change to make gdmsetup use the new gdmconfig functions for getting
configuration data from the server. This work cleaned up the code
quite a bit. Removed the "--config" option from gdmsetup since this
change makes it edit the configuration of the running GDM daemon
instead of a program that edits a particular configuration file.
* daemon/gdm.h, doc/C/gdm.xml: Updated docs with info about how
configuration works nwo. Now sockets protocol info is the same
in both documents.
* daemon/gdm.c: Fix GET_SERVER_DETAILS to support "ID" and some
cleanup.
* gui/Makefile.am, daemon/Makefile.am: Support --with-configdir option
which got broken.
* config/gdm.conf.in: Updated comments to mention that this file is not
to be edited. Cleaned up the file so it is more readible.
* config/Makefile.am: Install gdm.conf-custom and move gdm.conf to
gdm.conf-custom if it is modified and gdm.conf-custom is not already
installed. If it is changed and gdm.conf-custom already exists, move
it to gdm.conf.org.
* gui/gdmchooser.c, gui/gdmflexiserver.c: Remove unused getting of the
configuration file.
* gui/gdmconfig.[ch]: Add function to tell config to never_cache, which
is needed by gdmsetup.
* config/gdm.conf-custom: Added template file.
URL :
http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsquery.cgi?branch=&dir=gdm2&who=bcameron&date=explicit&mindate=2005-12-20%2017:08&maxdate=2005-12-20%2017:10
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