<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:corsac@debian.org">corsac@debian.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:47:12AM +0200, Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér wrote:<br>
> Has it ever been discussed to make an addition to Xscreensaver with a<br>
> better looking unlock dialog? I find that Xfce is very polished and<br>
> really love looking at it, but when it drops to Xscreensaver, it uses<br>
> the default X.org unlock dialog, which is... less than pretty.<br>
> But I don't know if this is a minor or a major task.<br>
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</div>It's a good idea. Maybe you should propose it to xscreensaver devs?<br>
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Cheers,<br>
--<br>
<font color="#888888">Yves-Alexis<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">_______________________</div></div></blockquote></div><br clear="all">The Xscreensaver recently did an article on this. Basically, it came down to "I can't use a toolkit because that's too large and thus is bound to have bugs. You can't have potential security bugs here because it'd allow you to bypass the screen lock, so I wrote my own, concise toolkit just for the unlock dialog of which I'm quite sure it is secure." He also pointed out that the preferences dialog is GTK.<br>
<br>See <a href="http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html">http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html</a><br><br>Also note that:<br><br>
<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><ul>
Making the xscreensaver unlock dialog securely use a toolkit is
difficult, but possible, were a knowledgeable person to do the work.
If the work were done well (by which I mean: clearly commented and
documented, and with obvious attention paid to the security
implications) I would be happy to incorporate those changes into the
xscreensaver distribution.
<p> Making the unlock dialog also be able to take advantage
of accessibility tools is probably a <i>lot</i> harder. I don't know
how much harder, because I'm not an accessibility expert. But anyone
intending to implement that had better be both an expert on
accessibility, and well versed in secure X11 programming, because the
security implications of getting it wrong would be dire indeed. <br></p></ul></blockquote>Cheers,<br>-- <br>Vincent<br>
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