Bug 386485

Summary: SUSE greeter for GNOME
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0 Reporter: Jakub Steiner <jimmac>
Component: GNOMEAssignee: Vincent Untz <vuntz>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Critical    
Priority: P5 - None Flags: coolo: SHIP_STOPPER+
Version: Beta 1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
Whiteboard: gnome-showstopper
Found By: --- Services Priority:
Business Priority: Blocker: ---
Marketing QA Status: --- IT Deployment: ---
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 369270    
Attachments: Current background

Description Jakub Steiner 2008-05-04 09:30:34 UTC
Layout and style a new greeter page for GNOME
Comment 1 Jakub Steiner 2008-05-19 13:47:11 UTC
The template is at https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/opensuse-art/trunk/greeter/GNOME/ a preview can be seen at http://greeter.jimmac.net/
Comment 2 Vincent Untz 2008-05-22 09:32:15 UTC
So, the current code uses Gtk.HTML and this doesn't support CSS nor javascript. I'll try to look at the Gecko stuff in mono...
Comment 3 Vincent Untz 2008-05-22 09:46:11 UTC
The easy way would be to use Gecko.WebControl, except that it won't work well since we have code to zoom out the Gtk.HTML view to avoid having scrollbars and I don't see any method to do this in Gecko.WebControl.

Not quite sure what to do here. JP, what do you think?
Comment 4 Jakub Steiner 2008-05-22 14:33:59 UTC
Since this looks like it would drain even more resounces, I'd like to point out this is a very unfriendly nag screen that I always hated in Windows 95(?). With my designer hat on, I recommend dropping this 'greeter'. We already have desktop launchers to the to the website/forum.
Comment 5 Vincent Untz 2008-05-23 09:32:15 UTC
I'm with Jakub here, fwiw -- I never understood why we had this dialog (removing the dialog means not shipping ggreeter -- there shouldn't be anything else to do). An alternative approach, if we really want to keep it, is to keep it the current way.

Note that I'll be without internet access in ~7 hours for nearly a day.
Comment 6 Vincent Untz 2008-05-23 16:10:42 UTC
Created attachment 217858 [details]
Current background

Attaching the current background for jimmac.
Comment 7 Jakub Steiner 2008-05-23 17:31:14 UTC
11.0 styled bg image -- https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/opensuse-art/trunk/greeter/bg-head-800x58.png
Comment 8 Vincent Untz 2008-05-26 08:00:55 UTC
Submitted the new background.