Change the screensaver login screen?
Garrett LeSage
garrett at redhat.com
Mon Nov 10 21:44:02 UTC 2003
Bill Nottingham wrote:
>Rodolfo J. Paiz (rpaiz at simpaticus.com) said:
>
>
>>At 14:30 11/10/2003, you wrote:
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>>>The main issue is that it's preferred that the app that be checking
>>>the passwords not be linked against all the GUI libraries. So it
>>>would require rearchtecting the dialog into two parts.
>>>
>>>
>>Even if you didn't do that much heavy lifting, could I register this
>>message as an RFE for a login screen that isn't so butt-ugly and primitive?
>>
>>
>
>No, because making it prettier *requires* linking against all the
>GUI libs...
>
>
...Or maintaining a patch which would change the colors, the 3d border
effect, and alter a compiled-in graphic. It could be messy.
There's always asking upstream to fix it in certain ways too.
Garrett
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