Ticket #505 (new enhancement) — at Version 3
Identify Debathena on the login screen
| Reported by: | geofft | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Summer 2010 (Lucid Deploy) |
| Component: | -- | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Fixed in version: | ||
| Upstream bug: |
Description (last modified by broder) (diff)
This is vaguely a repeat of #158 for new-style GDM
In particular, we should have a big block of text saying "Welcome to Debathena" or something on the login screen, as well as identifying which metapackage and Debian/Ubuntu? release the person is running.
rbasch already written code to make applications work correctly when running with GDM for the debathena-kiosk launcher. We should pull that out into a common parent class and use it for both the kiosk launcher and this "Welcome to Debathena" message.
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comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by broder
For new-style GDMs, we can abuse the same technique we're using to pull off the kiosk browse button. If we write a Gtk app that just prints "$(machtype -L) on $(machtype -E)" on top of everything else, and drop a .desktop file in /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow, we don't even need the complexity of the debathena-foo-branding packages.
Before deploying this, though, we need to find the fix for #548 and apply it to this application as well.
Who says you can't do arbitrary skinning on new-style GDM?
