On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 09:31 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: > On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 18:32 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 12:30 -0400, Pat Suwalski wrote: > > > > Is login the best time to show this information or would you > > > > prefer if > > > > the user saw it immediately? > > > > > > It might be nice to have GDM display this kind of information, polling > > > for changes to /etc/motd every minute or so instead. > > > > > some admins put sensible info on /etc/moptd, so we might not want to > > show it to anyone getting to the login screen. For that, /etc/issue > > might be better suited, although that is of no use for most users. > > I was thinking that next it might be fun to have an option to > show /etc/issue on the GDM screen (of course, if you access it over > XDMCP it would show /etc/issue.net). > yes, that was my next planned step.
> I think this could definitely be useful to people. A checkbox might be > nice (never show the message of the day again) which would not be > visible when the Administrator has made the setting mandatory. > at Novell we came up with a possible solution, which is to have MOTD just show up when a GConf key is set. Thus, it would be disabled by default, and the admins can enable it if they wish. > The automatic updating is also a great idea. > > Administrators don't want some fancy HTML solution, they want a text > file that gets shown to people when they log in. It is low tech, can be > used to give information and it works. In addition, everyone knows where > it is. Even many Windows admins have their NETLOGON.bat display the text > from the MOTD (or even /etc/motd if they're using Samba) followed by a > `pause` so that you can read it. > > Let's put it in. > first, we need to branch gnome-session. Mark, so, what's your opinion, should we put it in? -- Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
