Bug 355468 - Improve support for fast user switching
Summary: Improve support for fast user switching
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
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Product: openSUSE 10.3
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Usability (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Stephan Kulow
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Reported: 2008-01-22 22:10 UTC by Markus Elfring
Modified: 2008-02-26 10:26 UTC (History)
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Description Markus Elfring 2008-01-22 22:10:52 UTC 
There are a couple of open issues in the application of switching between different desktop sessions. The design details that will need some improvements are already described in documents like the following.
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop/FastUserSwitching

- "Building a Modern Multi-User Desktop" by William Jon McCann
  http://people.freedesktop.org/~mccann/talks/guadec-multiuser.pdf (581 KB)

I would like to point out a few things where I am affected.
1. An identification can be chosen by the tool "fast-user-switch-applet 2.20.0" (http://ignore-your.tv/fusa/) in GNOME. But it is not transferred and reused in the GDM login manager. The user name must be entered again.

2. It seems that I can not open another session for the same user.

3. I am missing the menu entry/button "Switch User" in KDE 3.5.7 on my system. This should be supported by the KDM login manager.

4. I am curious when this feature will work with KDE 4 (Bug #355085).
Comment 1 Martin Schmidkunz 2008-02-06 13:47:54 UTC 
Mhm. Sounds like these are issues for the guys maintaining the correspondig packages. 
As I am lacking the ability to program either KDE or GNOME stuff I don't see how I can be of any assistance to you.

Sorry,

Martin
Comment 2 Markus Elfring 2008-02-07 21:20:00 UTC 
Would you like to support improvements for the software "ConsoleKit" and related issues?

1.,2. How much pressure is there to reduce limitations in session management?

By the way:
3. The missed functionality reappeared with KDE 3.5.8 on my system.
Comment 3 Stephan Kulow 2008-02-26 10:26:23 UTC 
1. and 2. seem indepedent issues, so please file independent reports and always list exactly the software you're refering to. Because you're gently mixing gdm/kdm and kde/gnome in this report and in this very case it's pretty important to know.