| 2012-08-28 14:03:38 |
Michael Terry |
description |
For 12.10, we're trying to add a remote login feature into the greeter. This involves lots of different packages and there is a separate MIR for that itself (bug 1040221). That feature will be opt-in by toggling a certain system gsettings key.
But in order to support remote logins in the greeter, we also wanted to have a network indicator in the greeter.
The code to enable it is very simple:
https://code.launchpad.net/~bikini-atoll-squad/unity-greeter/network-menu/+merge/119948
And the code to restrict it to not have any permissions is here:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/unity-greeter/ubuntu/revision/55
In the final analysis, it will need slightly more permission than that (as is now, it can only show state). It should also be allowed to start a connection that isn't automatically started. Security team does not want us to enable creating new connections.
There are a few UI warts in the applet, as it doesn't really expect to be run with so few permissions. But that's fixable and really is just it showing things that it shouldn't because the user can't use the controls anyway.
You can test the greeter with these changes here:
https://code.launchpad.net/~unity-greeter-team/+archive/daily |
For 12.10, we're trying to add a remote login feature into the greeter. This involves lots of different packages and there is a separate FFe for that itself (bug 1040221). That feature will be opt-in by toggling a certain system gsettings key.
But in order to support remote logins in the greeter, we also wanted to have a network indicator in the greeter.
The code to enable it is very simple:
https://code.launchpad.net/~bikini-atoll-squad/unity-greeter/network-menu/+merge/119948
And the code to restrict it to not have any permissions is here:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/unity-greeter/ubuntu/revision/55
In the final analysis, it will need slightly more permission than that (as is now, it can only show state). It should also be allowed to start a connection that isn't automatically started. Security team does not want us to enable creating new connections.
There are a few UI warts in the applet, as it doesn't really expect to be run with so few permissions. But that's fixable and really is just it showing things that it shouldn't because the user can't use the controls anyway.
You can test the greeter with these changes here:
https://code.launchpad.net/~unity-greeter-team/+archive/daily |
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