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@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +Wed Jul 23 15:13:33 2003 George Lebl <jirka@5z.com> + + * Release 2.4.2.98 + + * docs/Makefile.am: fix for distcheck + Wed Jul 23 14:29:53 2003 George Lebl <jirka@5z.com> * gui/greeter/greeter.c: whack some debug messages @@ -1,5 +1,92 @@ Ahh news... +2.4.2.98 stuff: + +- DOCUMENTATION! We have documentation! I've updated the + xml docs and they're installed so you can use the GNOME + help browser to browse them under GNOME|System. Or you + can view the HTML versions on the webpage + (www.jirka.org/gdm.html) + +- Whack the GdmGreeterThemeManual.txt as it is now part + of the xml documentation + +- Add mnemonics/keynav to a bunch of things and generally try to + fix issues from the HIG bugs filed in bugzilla (partially + fixes #117776, #117784, #117504 + +- Add "listitem" tag to the graphical themes. This allows + custom list widgets in the theme and then you can get + the info in a PreSession script or whatnot. + +- The graphical greeter now scales down fonts on screens + 800x600 and less, and scalles down fonts even more + on screens 640x480 and less. + +- Remove the iconification of Standard greeter feature, + it was broken and I didn't want to fix it, and it was + weird anyway. + +- Internal messaging is now faster as we use an internal pipe + instead of the FIFO file. Also reduces the damage gdm user + can do + +- Don't XOpenDisplay so many times to make things run along + a lot faster, and use XSetAuthority instead of XAUTHORITY + env var internaly + +- The server reinit is now safer, doesn't fork an extra process + and it's quite a bit faster + +- Justification of text in the graphical greeter is based on + the anchor of the text + +- We're very careful about the log directory as well as the + ServAuthDir + +- Fix a bunch of errors (mostly portability stuff) by looking at the + FreeBSD cvs repository + +- The server authfile is now unreadable by the gdm user during + a user sessions for security + +- Fixed #109331, by catching term/int/hup signals properly when inside + the hanging gethostbyaddr/name + +- The name resolution stuff now caches the last result for 60 + seconds + +- Get the name of the root user instead of assuming it's "root" + (fixes #117527) + +- Fix hangs with the signal stuff by fixing the in_signal flag + undercounts and redoing the waitpid mess in the slave by using + a select call, and not doing that many things in the signal + handlers. Also fixes a long delay when restarting the greeter + +- Fix configuration with --with-xinerama=no (#117895) + +- The standard greeter clock will now look much better with + some themes. + +- An empty return will once again log you into the timed user + as it did before I broke it + +- The Xsession now displays $0 in output (Steve Chaplin, #117898) + +- There is now a gdmtranslate libexec proggie that does what + the gettext command does, so we get translations from scripts + even on user systems (ones without developer kind of packages) + +- Fix gdmaskpass internationalization + +- Lots of random minor fixes + +- Translation updates (Artur Flinta, Vincent van Adrighem, + Duarte Loreto, Pablo Gonzalo del Campo, Francisco Javier Fernandez, + Hasbullah Bin Pit, Noor Azurah Anuar, Christian Neumair, + Miloslav Trmac, Danilo Segan, Serbian team, Kang Jeong-Hee) + 2.4.2.97 stuff: - HIGify almost all the alert boxes. diff --git a/docs/Makefile.am b/docs/Makefile.am index 40fc4251..2dcfa30a 100644 --- a/docs/Makefile.am +++ b/docs/Makefile.am @@ -1,2 +1 @@ SUBDIRS = . C -EXTRA_DIST = GdmGreeterThemeManual.txt |