GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 407964
direct fast user switching
Last modified: 2007-09-13 03:21:55 UTC
so, we have been looking at the fast user switch experience we want for Fedora 7, and we think it would be better to go directly to the gdm screen when the switch user button is pressed. I'll attach a minimal patch to achieve that. Of course, if you agree that this is the correct behaviour, all the user list code should be ripped out. Alternatively, one could cop out and add a gconf key to make this configurable...
Created attachment 82550 [details] [review] minimal patch
not really serious about the gconf key, btw. I think this is the right behaviour. We might also want to change the button to say something more descriptive, like "Open another session" or "Log in as another user".
Another thing that would be nice to add is changing to a wait cursor when the "Switch user" button is clicked, since it takes a while. The only problem is knowing when to switch back to a normal cursor.
Created attachment 82619 [details] [review] patch So, that patch will still try to populate the model with all the users on the system. Which is kinda bad since we're enabling it by default now. Here's a more complete axing. Basically I agree that this is the best behavior provided that GDM does things reasonably. Having the FUSA stuff in the dialog was essentially to work around a dumb GDM. At this point I think we need to shine the light on gdm. I'm going to commit this since we haven't gotten any feedback on the list about th design issues.