On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 13:03 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote: > Hi Shaun, > > Good comments. I'll reply inline. > > Shaun McCance wrote: > > * Same wiki page: > > > > Use the gdm login screen for switching accounts, and tidy it up. > > > > I've long held that XP got the interaction right. There's just one > > login screen. Unlocking your screen is just logging back in again. > > Switching users is just logging in. [snip] > I agree in part. Unfortunately, it gets a bit complicated both > technically and politically. [snip]
Yeah, I figured there would be lots of technical hurdles to get past for this. I just want to throw in my support for this as a long-term goal. For now, gnome-screensaver is definitely a big improvement. > > * As long as we have the model we have now, the user-switching > > dialog needs love. Right now, it displays a list of all the > > users. The list is tall enough to accommodate about 1.2 users. > > I regularly use a machine that has hundreds of users. That's > > not a fun list to scroll through. > > Most of the time if you have a face image showing on the other page then > you will be able to see more users at a time. > > I am also in a system with hundreds of users so I understand. You can > use gtktreeview type-ahead find to speed up your searches. On my system > I can find my user name in two keypresses and one mouse click. This is > much faster than typing my entire username. Well, I don't know what factors play into all of this. All I know is that, on my system, I can see one user listed in the list view. It just needs to be taller. > > * And on that note, there needs to be a way to disable the > > face browser entirely. In a lot of settings, sysadmins don't > > want to show a list of all users to people who might not even > > have accounts on the machines. > > The user switching is off by default. It must be enabled by setting the > GConf key /apps/gnome-screensaver/user_switch_enabled to TRUE. Well, but that disables user switching entirely, right? We need a way to have user switching, but still never show a user listing. Just a username/password thing to log in as a new user. > > * You've hidden quite a lot of options. All well and good. > > But we can't just hide things that people use, unless we've > > really provided a better system. Case in point, I actually > > use the setting for when to lock the screen after it's blanked. > > Removing that setting annoys me, unless you make it Just Work > > so I don't need the setting anymore. > > I've heard this complaint before. I think there is another possibility > besides adding such an option. > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309142 I'm not proposing any options be added. I'm proposing that gnome-screensaver just always waits a few seconds before locking the screen. My proposal is pretty much the same as comment #2 in that bug report. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
