Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes wrote: > Hi Bill, > > Could you present me a use-case where I can just see it work (and them > remove the interface and appreciate the difference), or there isn't any > application that make use of the LoginHelper interface? >
Sun's build of xscreensaver uses it. I am not sure if community xscreensaver sources have included these changes or not, perhaps it's in recent XOrg source builds? Bill > Best regards, > Carlos. > > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 16:00 -0300, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes > wrote: > >> Hi Bill, >> >> On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 14:45 +0000, Bill Haneman wrote: >> >>> Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all! >>>> >>>> Hi Bill! Some time ago you told me that removing the LoginHelper >>>> interface from gnome-mag would broken it. Could you provide me use cases >>>> where I can see the importance of this interface and how it's act? >>>> >>>> >>> Hi Carlos; >>> >>> The primary use for LoginHelper (which should probably have been called >>> AuthenticationHelper instead) is to allow assistive technologies and >>> services to continue to operate during screen blanking and various kinds >>> of authentication processes. >>> >>> For instance, when the screensaver lock is active, the magnifier window >>> cannot normally be seen. The LoginHelper interface allows the >>> screensaver dialog to query whether any assistive technologies or >>> services need access to desktop services during authentication. In the >>> magnifier+screensaver use case, LoginHelper tells the screensaver that >>> access to the Xserver display is required, and that a particular window >>> (the magnifier's toplevel window) needs to be raised. >>> >> If I understand right the screensaver raises the magnifier window only >> when it asks for the password? I tried here with xscreensaver and with >> gnome-screensaver (in the last the authentication mechanism isn't >> working) and anyone raise the magnifier window. >> >> I only have it raised when using the OverlayWindow, but this is a >> standard behavior, and when running OpenGL screensavers these interfere >> in the magnifier window. >> >> Best regards, >> Carlos. >> >> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Bill >>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> Carlos. >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list >>>> Gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org >>>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> _______________________________________________________ >> Yahoo! Mail - Sempre a melhor opção para você! >> Experimente já e veja as novidades. >> http://br.yahoo.com/mailbeta/tudonovo/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list >> Gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel >> > > > > _______________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail - Sempre a melhor opção para você! > Experimente já e veja as novidades. > http://br.yahoo.com/mailbeta/tudonovo/ > _______________________________________________ > Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list > Gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel > > > _______________________________________________ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list Gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
