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@@ -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, |