Re: Change the screensaver login screen?

[Garrett LeSage <garrett@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Rodolfo J. Paiz (rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: 
>  
>
> > At 14:30 11/10/2003, you wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > The main issue is that it's preferred that the app that be checking
> > > the passwords not be linked against all the GUI libraries. So it
> > > would require rearchtecting the dialog into two parts.
> > >      
> > Even if you didn't do that much heavy lifting, could I register this 
> > message as an RFE for a login screen that isn't so butt-ugly and primitive? 
> >    
>
> No, because making it prettier *requires* linking against all the
> GUI libs...
>  

...Or maintaining a patch which would change the colors, the 3d border 
effect, and alter a compiled-in graphic.  It could be messy.

There's always asking upstream to fix it in certain ways too.

Garrett