Timothy R. Butler wrote: > Hi everyone, > I'd like to propose an idea that I think could easily be implemented by 9.1 > final and would be really great. I mean, wonderful. Most of you probably > know the term "Fast user switching" from the Windows XP marketingspeak. Most > of you also know that GNU/Linux is fully capable of doing the same thing. >
This is something I have requested before, Mandrakesoft, please consider it! Of course, we have had this much longer than XP, but the point-and-clickers (the one's who would currently not be able to fix their mouse with MCC if their mouse wasn't working) would think XP had it first, because XP has a GUI for it. > The problem is, until recently, no one bothered to implement a GUI for this. > Now Xandros has full fast user switching functionality -- there is a menu > option that lets you login as another user (i.e. start another X session) or > easily jump to another open session -- another tty). Red Hat, using gdm, > offers the former functionality, but not the latter (you must still use > Ctrl+Alt+F[num] combinations to switch). > IMHO, kdm needs to implement this, and the two need to be compatible, so if I am running gdm, but using KDE, the logout dialog still offers the options I get if I'm running kdm. > Now, I'm not sure if Xandros' modifications are GPL'ed or not, but even if > they weren't, I'd imagine that they would be very easy to reimplement on > Mandrake. Since GNU/Linux already has the capability, it is a real shame not > to exploit it, I think. If MDK implemented both pieces of the puzzle that I > mention above, it would be the FIRST major distribution to do so, and would > also be the FIRST Free Software-friendly distro to do so. > > With it being mostly implementing a simple gui to watch open X sessions and > allow easy launching of additional X tty's seems to me something that would > take very little effort but be nice to brag about on the 9.1 press release. All we need is: -"New login" support in kdm like gdm has, so that they are compatible -A visible menu to "Change users", which lists current sessions, and has an option for a new session -Lock the current session (via screensaver) just before switching. I haven't used the XP user switching GUI, so there might be better ways of doing this. -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
