request for enhancement: gdmsetup

[Anthony Ewell]

> Nope, no confusion there at all.  As an Xfce developer, I think I should
> know which things we wrote, and which we didn't ^_~.  Out of the
> settings panels we provide with Xfce, the only one that launches
> something not distributed as a part of Xfce is the xscreensaver settings
> app, since we more or less assume that people will use xscreensaver with
> Xfce (whether that's a correct assumption or not is irrelevant to this
> discussion).
> 
> Providing a settings panel button for gdmsetup would raise the question
> of why we don't provide one for slim, or KDE's display manager, or
> entrance, or whatever.  We don't want to go down that road.  If a distro
> packager wants to include a settings button for gdmsetup (or switchdesk,
> or whatever), that's their option.  If you'd like to see this happen for
> your distro of choice, please contact your distro packager.

Brian,

    As to the question as to what to include and not to include,
I presumed that you would only include the one that added
functionality to the settings panel, such as the screen saver
that you mentioned.  In other words, you would include
"the good ones".

    In my humble opinion, gdmsetup is one of these.  This
is why I ask that you, now that I know you are one of
the developers, to look at it.  It should only
take you a minute or so to either love it or hate it.

    And, maybe I should say why I like gdmsetup:

1) it allows me to configure gdm to automatically log
in a user, and

2) it allow me to configure gdm's "graphical greater"
when I am not automatically being logged in.  (I
usually use "Happy gnome")

    I do believe these two functions are not included
in the settings control panel.  If I am wrong, I would
appreciate you letting me know which icon in settings
controls these two functions.   If they are and mine
are not working, I will fill out one of your bug
reports.

    By they way, you do good work.  XFce is a great
piece of code.

Many thanks,
--Tony