Replacement user accounts dialog
Fedora have a nice new user accounts tool (accountsdialog, not installed by default yet), which is not dependant on system-
- gdm and indicator-session (accountsservice provides information about users, which both of these could probably use. Fedora might already have a gdm patch to use it)
- gdmsetup (accountsdialog provides basic options for changing gdm settings, but doesn't provide all the options we have yet)
- gnome-about-me (can accountsdialog replace this entirely yet, or would it need some extra work?)
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Sebastien Bacher
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- Chris Coulson
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Chris Coulson
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Implemented
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Sebastien Bacher
- Completed by
- Sebastien Bacher
Whiteboard
See summary on https:/
seb128, 2012-05-22: the new account is part of GNOME3 and landed in Oneiric
seb128, 2010-07-22: defer to the next cycle since we don't have the spare cycles to work on those changes
discussion notes:
* the new dialog is an easy one for users not for sysadmins
- This is probably by design - there is a case for a more advanced user admin tool
* Are then any issues with us differing from Debian?
- No
* Not an official GNOME project (but expected to be proposed)
ACTIONS:
- [ccoulson] Package and install accounts-dialog
- [ccoulson] Need to investigate what needs to be configured for Ubuntu
- [ccoulson] Remove system-
- [ccoulson] Filter out non-users (e.g. gdm, ntp)
- [dx] Migrate me menu to new user API (drop GDM patch)
- [ccoulson] Drop gnome-about-me (avatar and password can be changed in accounts-dialog, vcard can be added for user in evolution)
- [ccoulson] Investigate guest login option in accounts-dialog
- [ccoulson] Disable the login screen settings in accounts-dialog and use Ubuntu gdmsetup tool (it has options not supported by accounts-dialog yet)
- [design] Request input from design team for login screen dialog, consider future of gdmsetup
- [ccoulson, TheMuso] Investigate option for enabling accessibiliy from the accounts-dialog
Work items:
Request input from design team for login screen dialog, consider future of gdmsetup: TODO
Investigate option for enabling accessibiliy from the accounts-dialog: TODO
Work items for maverick-alpha-3:
[chrisccoulson] Package accounts-dialog: TODO
[chrisccoulson] Package accountsservice: TODO
[chrisccoulson] Disable login-screen settings in accounts-dialog: TODO
[chrisccoulson] Investigate what needs configuring for Ubuntu: TODO
[chrisccoulson] Split gnome-about-me from gnome-control-
Install accountsservice and accounts-dialog: TODO
Drop gnome-system-tools and system-
[chrisccoulson] Integrate GDM with accountsservice: TODO
Integrate indicator-session with accountsservice: TODO
[chrisccoulson] Drop GDM patch(es) to expose user information: TODO
Update Me menu to not launch gnome-about-me: TODO
