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authorBrian Cameron <brian.cameron@sun.com>2007-04-23 04:46:47 +0000
committerBrian Cameron <bcameron@src.gnome.org>2007-04-23 04:46:47 +0000
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downloadgdm-c50a1854d912332dd12187397df623c200892f4e.tar.gz
Updated.
2007-04-23 Brian Cameron <brian.cameron@sun.com> * Release 2.19.0: * NEWS: Updated. svn path=/trunk/; revision=4852
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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-04-23 Brian Cameron <brian.cameron@sun.com>
+
+ * Release 2.19.0:
+ * NEWS: Updated.
+
2007-04-20 William Jon McCann <mccann@jhu.edu>
* daemon/gdm.c: (handle_flexi_server), (handle_dynamic_server),
@@ -805,7 +810,7 @@
referring to this feature as "Xnest". Added some docs
to the PAM section. Other cleanup of wording.
* daemon/gdm.[ch], daemon/auth.c, daemon/server.c,
- daemon/slave.c: Change wording fro Xnest to "nested
+ daemon/slave.c: Change wording from Xnest to "nested
Xserver" or "nested display".
2006-03-21 Brian Cameron <brian.cameron@sun.com>
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 87f02ee2..cc059121 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,155 @@
Ahh news...
+2.19.0 Stuff:
+
+Interface Changes:
+
+- Now the GDM PidFile is now specified as /var/run/gdm.pid and the
+ GDM configuration key PidFile has been deprecated. The location
+ of the PidFile can be configured with the configure --with-pid-file
+ option. (Brian Cameron, William Jon McCann)
+
+- The GDM AlwaysRestartServer configuration option is deprecated and
+ GDM will now always restart the Xserver between users. This makes
+ GDM work more reliably since reusing the Xserver can expose memory
+ leaks and instabilities in the Xserver code. (Brian Cameron,
+ William Jon McCann)
+
+- Now the GDM LogDir is set to /var/log/gdm rather than /var/lib/log/gdm
+ by default. Users can configure this with the configure
+ --with-log-file option. (Brian Cameron)
+
+- Remove logic to call whack_clients when closing the session. This
+ code was written to address bug #126071, to ensure that all clients
+ are killed on session exit. However, this approach does not work
+ well and causes GDM to fail badly when you kill the Xserver via
+ control-al-backspace on some environments. If there is still a need
+ to kill clients on session exit, a better approach will need to be
+ designed. (Cesare Tirabassi)
+
+- Now GDM supports Xephyr as the Nested Xserver command. GDM will use
+ Xephyr by default if it is on the system, and fallback to Xnest. Xephyr
+ works much better than Xnest. (Brian Cameron)
+
+- Now gdmgreeter will not display the Face Browser is the GDM configuration
+ option Browser is false. Now gdmsetup supports a "Themed with face
+ browser" option to support selecting this.
+
+- Comment in GDM System Defaults configuration file now shows "true"
+ for ConfigAvailable since this value has been defaulting to true for
+ some time and the comment in the System Defaults configuration file
+ was incorrect.
+
+- Now gdmphotosetup.desktop specifies NotShowIn=GNOME since the About-Me
+ capplet is a better place for configuring the user's face image in GNOME.
+
+New interfaces:
+
+- Add min-screen-height tag to gdmgreeter parser logic so that certain
+ elements in the theme will only display if the screen is large
+ enough. (Ray Strode).
+
+- New configuration option SystemCommandsInMenu to configure which
+ system commands (reboot, shutdown, suspend, etc.) appear in the GDM
+ greeter system menu. New configuration option AllowLogoutActions
+ to specify which system commands are supported by the QUERY_LOGOUT_ACTION,
+ SET_LOGOUT_ACTION, and SET_SAFE_LOGOUT action gdmflexiserver commands.
+ This allows GDM to be configured to support shutdown, reboot, suspend
+ from the user session, but no from the login screen directly, if
+ desired. In situations where you want the user to authenticate before
+ being able to shutdown or reboot the machine, this feature would be
+ useful.
+
+- GDM Now supports RBAC (Role Based Access Control) for specifying
+ which actions (reboot, shutdown, suspend, etc.) are supported on a per-user
+ basis. This feature is only available if GDM is compiled with RBAC support
+ enabled. The new configuration option RBACSystemCommandKeys allows an RBAC
+ key to be specified for each system command. Only users who have RBAC
+ authority will be able to query or set the logout action. The GDM GUI will
+ only display actions for which the "gdm" user has RBAC authority. GDM will
+ assume that all users have authority for actions which do not have an RBAC
+ key associated with them.
+
+- Now support XnestUnscaledFontPath configuration option, which allows GDM
+ to work with Xnest. Xorg 7.2 XGetFontPath function now returns fontpath
+ with the ":unscaled" prefix, which Xsun Xnest cannot handle. Setting
+ XnestUnscaledFontPath=false, will strip the ":unscaled" prefix from the
+ fontpath so that it can work. (Brian Cameron)
+
+New features, improvements, and bug fixes:
+
+- GDM had a bug that would happen after the user asked to run the
+ "Configure GDM" menu choice. If the user typed the wrong password,
+ it would ask up to 3 times. If the user typed the correct password
+ on the 2nd or 3rd try, it would start a root user session rather
+ than running gdmsetup. This problem would only happen if using PAM
+ for authenticating passwords. Now GDM only asks for the root
+ passwords once, and only runs gdmsetup if the password is correct.
+ This bug was introduced into GDM 2.18.0 when Ludwig Nussel made some
+ improvements to make the PAM logic more generic (Brian Cameron)
+
+- Much cleanup work in the GDM code, which now makes more use of
+ GObjects (e.g. XDMCP code). Configuration logic rewritten to no
+ longer use vicious-extensions and now uses GKeyFile. (William Jon
+ McCann)
+
+- Now when a user changes the language choice in GDM, it will ask if
+ the user wants to restart the GDM GUI in the selected language.
+ (Takao Fujiwara, Brian Cameron)
+
+- Many improvements supporting languages. Now all LC_* settings are
+ normalized to LANG, and input methods (IIIM->XIM) are started.
+ (Hidetoshi Tajima, Chookij Vanatham)
+
+- Fix check in gdmgreeter so that the language combo style selection
+ works. (Simon)
+
+- Add ATK label for the entry field in gdmgreeter for better
+ accessibility support. (David Zeuthen)
+
+- In gdmsetup, only show tar and compressed tar files in the file chooser
+ for selecting gdmgreeter themes to install. (Kristof Vansant)
+
+- Now the "Configure GDM" option is not displayed when accessibility is
+ enabled in GDM. This is because gdmsetup currently hangs when the
+ user tries to run gdmsetup from the greeter program. Not really a
+ fix, but prevents the user from getting into a situation that causes
+ a system hang. (Brian Cameron)
+
+- Now Face Browser displays non-utf8 characters as '?' rather than
+ crashing when trying to display such characters. (Ray Strode)
+
+- Improve GDM messages, correcting spelling and grammar mistakes
+ (Brian Cameron)
+
+- Fix detection of user specified in flexi command. (William Jon
+ McCann)
+
+- gdmflexiserver now properly initializes GTK+. (William Jon McCann)
+
+- Call "xrdb -merge /etc/X11/Xresources" in the Init script so that the
+ GDM GUI is properly configured with Xft rsources. Fixes bug #301826.
+ (Ray Strode)
+
+- Now desktop categories for all GDM related desktop files should be
+ correct. (Brian Cameron)
+
+- Fix gdm startup script so it works with Solaris /bin/sh. (Brian
+ Cameron)
+
+- Fix a strcpy call in gui/gdmlanguages.c so source and destination do
+ not overlap. (Ray Strode)
+
+- Remove gnome glade references since GNOME does not use libglade anymore.
+ (Kristof Vansant)
+
+- Many improvements to GDM docs. (Brian Cameron, William Jon McCann)
+
+- Translation updates (Djihed Afifi, Takeshi AIHANA, Leonardo
+ Ferreira Fontenelle, Jakub Friedl, Pema Geyleg, Priit Laes, Duarte
+ Loreto, Kjartan Maraas, Daniel Nylander, Kostas Papadimas, Ignacio
+ Casal Quinteiro, Hendrik Richter, Funda Wang)
+
2.18.1 Stuff:
- The GDM configuration option daemon/PidFile is now deprecated and
@@ -39,6 +189,9 @@ Ahh news...
- GDM daemon no longer links with D-Bus if ConsoleKit is not enabled.
(William Jon McCann)
+- Remove gnome glade references since GNOME does not use libglade anymore.
+ (Kristof Vansant)
+
- Translation updates (Takeshi AIHANA, Jakub Friedl, Leonardo Ferreira
Fontenelle, Pema Geyleg, Priit Laes, Kjartan Maraas, Inaki Larranaga
Murgoitio, Kostas Papadimas, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Hendrik Richter,