[Kde-kiosk] Session Type in KDM

[Gary Greene]

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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.

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Gary L. Greene, Jr.
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