On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:52:56 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 23/09/10 16:17, Camaleón wrote:
>>> Which remembers me - When I was doing a bit of a search last night I >>> came across comments to the effect that gdm-setup(?) functionality >>> "will" become part of the new Gnome shell. > > Accessible/configurable from is what I should have written.... Mmm... I'm not planning to move into gnome shell (still) so having to switch into that just to get more "accessibility" or "higher levels of configurability" would be a big handicap. >> Ugh... that would be an ugly approach ;-( >> >> Can you expand that information? >> > Not really, what I vaguely recall is that system configurations will > become(/be set from) an extension in gnome shell, gdm included. I > assumed that to mean that the daemon.conf would become > configurable/accessible through the shell. > > Came across the following in an attempt to track down where I read that. > Don't know if this is relevant:- >> The old GDM allowed sysadmins or distros to configure this in the GDM >> daemon configuration. Perhaps it makes sense to add this configuration >> option back so distros can set it as needed in their default >> configuration file. > Quoted from :- > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gdm-list/2010-July/msg00015.html Scroll > down for the reference to Bug #587750 Thanks... that gnome bug (#587750) seems to be key: *** GDM rewrite needs a configuration GUI panel similar to 2.20 (gdmsetup) https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587750 *** Fortunately, there is no mention for binding "gdmsetup" within gnome shell :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.09.23.09.26...@gmail.com
