Am Freitag, den 01.12.2006, 04:13 +0000 schrieb Who:
> > I guess that before nice effect for face browser, the most important is
> > transition effect between boot <-> login <-> session <-> logout <-> shut
> > down.
> >
>
> I think you've got a good point here - the transition is quite scrappy
> and unpolished currently - however is there any way to fix this? as I
> understand it (which is not very well...) unless we want to run GDM in
> the same graphics mode as the usplash (which we don't...) then we
> can't avoid the flashing
Making all those transitions seamless is very involved and actually a
seperate spec. But I'll look into at least the gdm->session transition
to get some bling-love in terms of a subtle fade-in/out... if it won't
distract me from the actual work on the face-browser.
All those transition-issues would not be a hard problem to solve if we
were going from text-mode (kernel booting) right into X11. And there are
also those different heads that might be running... transitions between
them or logging in as another user (while being already logged in) make
this a difficult task.
> The two things I think we could avoid would be
> - The lines of text we get between grub (which would be nicer if it
> wasn't plain text) and usplash ("what's the kernel, why is it
> unpacking an image?" says Joe User)
Hm... that sounds like it's usplash's task.
> - The plain background seen behind the lsplash after login: could we
> make the GDM and the lsplash more unified so that the GDM bg doesn't
> go until the user's desktop has loaded?
Ehm... I'm planning to use the usplash artwork in the face-browser to
provide this unified look (see the mockups).
> - Is there a way to set a maximum number of users, above which no face
> browser is shown (I.E if there are 300 users on a system - don't load
> all the photos!)
I've some ideas for those cases. But I'll have to code and test them
out.
> - How do we make it _easy_ for people to turn face browser off
> _completely_ without seriously damaging the way the GDM theme looks.
>
> Note: laoding no images is different from loading no face browser: if
> there are no images you can still see that there is a user called
> 'monkeyman' on the system, but with no face browser there is no way to
> tell who can log on at all.
>
> To me, it seems like it might be time to have a 'user experience'
> wizard as an optional part of the installer to select things like:
> theme, face browser style, whether to use aiglx, etc. Mandrake had one
> of these when I first tried Linux and it made me aware of all the
> configuration options I had - very simple but helped me discover
> features without being daunting.
I'm not going to code a fully themeable GL face-browser for gdm and
hack a ton on gdmsetup. That would make the work ahead of me explode.
Furthermore I also don't want to make to heavy "intrusions" in gdm's
overall framework. I want to make one part of gdm sweet, sexy and
simple... and finish on time :)
Best regards...
MacSlow
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