On 04/22/2011 01:59 PM, Scott Salley wrote:
> I've been investigating some bugs with gdm and the user list it displays and 
> discovered that gdm relies on ck-history.
> 
> Is there a spec or something for ck-history, because I have some questions 
> about how it should behave?
> 
> The specific problem I have is that user names are truncated at 8 characters, 
> which seems a rather archaic limit. I'd like to discuss with someone the 
> conditions on which this limit (and maybe others) could be removed. I have a 
> patch for the 'ck-history --frequent' case which calculates the longest name 
> length so column output is preserved, but that feels incomplete since it only 
> handles the one case.
> 
> Additionally, I noticed that ck-history will looks for older log files (i.e. 
> /var/log/ConsoleKit/history.2.gz) which seems odd. If someone has rotated 
> history.log out of the way, should it really be parsing through it?
> 
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The ConsoleKit site is http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ConsoleKit
with the mailing list at 
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/ConsoleKit

I know there is some overlap with XDG, but that would give you best results for 
your inquiries.

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