GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 71215
Add capplet to allow user to change password, set chfn config, and gdm2 face browser image
Last modified: 2005-07-16 13:59:40 UTC
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52140 Perhaps a better solution is the "My info" control panel with combination of face config, chfn frontend, and setting your email address.
RH bug has permissions issues, will be fixed shortly I hope.
Text from the bug: ---- As root if you try and setup your face it tells you to ask the sysadmin to enable faces. Surely it should suggest you run gdmconfig 8) Secondly it says "setup" when it means "set up" Thirdly I don't think it'll help the non techie user anyway, the language assumes too much knowledge. ---
I think having a user info capplet is generally a good idea, though I have minor qualms about privacy issues. I have a partial design for one if somebody gets up the gumption to try and implement this.
Hello, could I get news about this case?
This dialog definitely needs love, from the spacing to the text input (I am running a recent version and it appears to not be using the new file chooser). Perhaps it could even populate the image with some nice default or present the user with a couple default "face" items to chose from like os X does (of course leaving the option to add another user chosen image would be appropriate). Perhaps if this was really spiffed up it could even store the path to the image in a gconf key so things like im clients can use it as the biddy icon. Also, if it realy rocked, then maybe we could move it out of the "Advanced" menu, as there doesn't seem too much that is advanced about picking an image.
Note, the configuration should also support letting the user change their password. I'm closing bug 104949 since it is basically the same bug with the additional suggestion that password change be allowed.
*** Bug 104949 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I am moving this bug to control-center, since I think it makes more sense to have a password management capplet that isn't tied to gdm2. gdm2 is used by both KDE and GNOME, so it doesn't make sense to keep GNOME-specific code in gdm2. Furthermore a capplet that helps the user do things like change their password chfn configuration, and set their face dialog image probably makes more sense to be managed by control-center since only the face dialog setup has anything to do with gdm2 really.
This is already in CVS, but it doesn't look like it's been hooked up in the build yet.
the capplet is built now, bug fixed