Comment 8 for bug 973922

Quite some time ago, the Ubuntu developers patched Onboard for security reasons to not open the preferences dialog under the display manager. As we integrated that patch into the following releases of Onboard, the wrench does not work by design under the display manager.

@ marmuta (who is coding Onboard and who is probably watching this thread; otherwise, I will contact him directly in a few days)

What about hiding the wrench when Onboard is running under the display manager instead of simply disabling it? This way, people would not think it to be broken.

Moreover, what about adding the option "Apply the theme changes also to the login screen" in the Preferences dialog tab about the themes? I am aware, that it should be called with root privileges, but I think that it should be feasible. The main difficulty might be to do it for the various display managers that are available. But again, we could make that new option available only for determined display managers.