Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gdm
Hi,
Xubuntu & Mythbuntu are also using gdm. In karmic, we used a not-so-
beautiful-not-so-robust hack to theme it, using xfce4's settings manager
(launched with desktop files) instead of gnome-settings-daemon. In
lucid, I'm considering to use gnome-settings-daemon to improve that, but
the current packaging approach is a problem.
>From what I could see when testing on lucid, it seems to me that the
current theme, hardcoded in /var/lib/gdm/.gconf-defaults/%gconf.xml,
which is shipped by gdm, cannot be overridden easily (even if I force
different gconf default settings with dh_gconf in xubuntu-gdm-theme).
I looked a bit in gdm*/debian/patches, and this .gconf-defaults path has
been manually added for ubuntu. A possible (not so good) solution is to
add as well .gconf.${derivative} to the patch... Anyway, I can probably
dpkg-divert /var/lib/gdm/.gconf-defaults/%gconf.xml if needed, but this
looks a bit suboptimal (and not so robust)... These two solutions have
the same drawback, in that installing gdm then xubuntu-gdm-theme then
mythbuntu-gdm-theme will make the theme change without user
intervention.
Any better idea?
** Affects: gdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Please provide a way to theme gdm for derivatives
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/498193
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