RFE: Add "Also apply changes to login screen" to some options of the Preferences dialog
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Onboard |
New
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
In message #4 of the bug thread indicated by the following link, Mark Bokil considers an inconsistancy the fact, that the theme changes the he does for Onboard in the desktop session do not also apply to the login screen.
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Regardless of it being an inconsistancy or not, the problem that it is not possible to open the Preferences dialog of Onboard while it is running at the login screen might be relieved, if it was possible to change some settings of Onboard from within the desktop session. Thus my idea to add an "Also apply changes to login screen" option for the theme settings (as asked by mark), the layout settings and maybe the transparency settings settings of the Preferences dialog of Onboard. (
I suppose that making the macro definitions of the desktop session available under the login screen would not make much sense, especially not if it is running on a computer used by more than one person.
Finally, I am aware that copying some changes done to the Preferences of Onboard to the login screen will require root privileges. I suppose that the higher privileges can be achieved by using the policykit and this will at the same time make sure that the changes to Onboard at the login screen can be done only by system administrators.
summary: |
- Add "Also apply changes to login screen" to some options of the + RFE: Add "Also apply changes to login screen" to some options of the Preferences dialog |
Changed in onboard: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
There already is a way to change the theme at the desktop level for the onboard keyboard. From the panel indicator you can select preferences and then theme. This sets the desktop onboard theme and also the onboad which appears at screen lockout. The greeter is the only onboard keyboard which has the default theme statically set. On my 12.10 system there are 3 places where the onboard keyboard appears: 1) greeter. 2) desktop invocation by launcher, indicator, shortcut, etc. 3) screen lockout with onboard at bottom of password screen. I am guessing you can read the existing gschema setting for onboard at greeter screen and apply it. So maybe ability to set onboard at greeter is not needed.