Comment 7 for bug 422052
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| Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote Re: [Bug 422052] Re: Menu should list users if fewer than 6 are on the system | #7 |
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Ted Gould [2009-09-02 15:59 -0000]:
> ConsoleKit doing it would be fine with me, but the code to do it already
> exists inside GDM. And GDM already does this for the greeter.
Well, it's doing it with Robert's gdmsetup patch, it's not upstream
yet. upstream gdm uses ck-history --frequent which does something
slightly different.
> So in the GDM case it's more an issue of exporting the information
> over DBus while in the CK case it would be adding the
> code/functionality.
I don't want to dwell on it too much, but from an architectural point
of view it seems just wrong to me. You'd end up implementing
everything twice again, for gdm, for kdm, etc...
Martin
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