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Launchpad Entry: desktop-lucid-gdmsetup
Created: 2009-11-24
Contributors: RobertAncell
Packages affected: gdm
Summary
Ubuntu 9.10 introduced a new GDM version without a GUI setup utility. A minimal setup tool was developed for Ubuntu to allow configuration of automatic user login. This specification is for the extra configuration items that should be added to this tool.
Release Note
This release has improved login screen configuration and now allows configuration of the following options:
- ...
Rationale
There are a number of GDM features that users want to configure simply.
User stories
Amy wants to make her login screen match her desktop and sets the login background and theme to match her own.
Brian is the only user on his computer. He sets the default login to him.
Chris administers a laboratory of computers. He disables the face browser as there are too many users to list them all.
Debbie uses her laptop in the library. She disables the login sound so as not to disturb other people.
Design
The "Login Screen" tool will provide the following options:
- Default user
- Login delay
- Face browser toggle
- Guest session toggle
- Login mute
- Background image or color
- GTK+ theme and icon theme
- Default session
- Security options? (fingerprint, show dots, ...)
Implementation
...
Migration
New features are being added, existing features will continue to work as before.
Test/Demo Plan
Check all the user stories can be completed with the updated tool.
DesktopTeam/Specs/Lucid/GDMSetup (last edited 2010-02-20 05:54:37 by 218)