From kde-kiosk Sat Apr 19 17:49:07 2003 From: Gary Greene Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 17:49:07 +0000 To: kde-kiosk Subject: Re: [Kde-kiosk] Session Type in KDM X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-kiosk&m=105077462908162 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 19 April 2003 7:57 am, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 01:22:55PM +0200, Martijn Klingens wrote: > > On Saturday 19 April 2003 13:12, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 12:01:03PM +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: > > > > is there any possibility to hide the "session type" (kde3, failsafe, > > > > ...) field in KDM? > > > > > > no. you could only trim the list down to one entry. i'm wondering > > > whether it would be reasonable to make the combo vanish automatically > > > if only one entry is present ... > > > > Auto-changing GUIs are frowned upon usability-wise. > > yeah, that was my guts feeling, too. > > > I think the distinction in this case would be a 'list that happens to > > be a single entry' and a 'list that was explicitly locked down'. > > yeah, but even the default setup has at least three entries, so you must > have good reasons to have a one-entry list and in this case probably > don't want to show it at all - but then, maybe you want to keep it for > verbosity. > > > In the latter case you can use the Kiosk/KConfig's immutable code to > > see if the entry list is immutable, in which case it's safe to hide > > it. > > hmm, talking about kiosk/kconfig is a bit moot wrt. kdm, as it does > everything by hand. > adding an option as such is trivial, but i'm sorta concerned about > option bloat. nah, it wouldn't be the first almost-noop option ... > > greetings As soon as my exams are finished I'll be working on themeable KDM's I'll add an option to the control center module to remove the combo, but I'll make a set of "magic keys" (like Alt-W or something) at the greeter to show it so that the system admin can get a choice if they want it. - -- Gary L. Greene, Jr. Sent from uriel.gvsu.edu 13:44:36 up 2 days, 12:23, 5 users, load average: 0.10, 0.03, 0.01 ============================================================ Founder and president of the Grand Valley Linux Users Group. -==- Chief Systems Architect, SSC Limited, Inc. - OS Department. PHONE : 331-0562 EMAIL : greeneg@student.gvsu.edu ============================================================ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+oYwWyPw381UL7WcRAjJpAJ49FEOsCKHizSHnU3kuvXHjbfRPqACfRdnq J2qP4fKYrH2Yd1Pjqpy+/4U= =jHKS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ kde-kiosk mailing list kde-kiosk@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-kiosk