Bug 246187

Summary:	Login screen is unintuitive for user-switching
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	n0dalus <n0dalus+redhat>
Component:	gdm	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	8
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Description n0dalus 2007-06-29 02:57:59 UTC

Description of problem:
The login screen when switching users (using FUSA) is unintuitive.
* It should make it clear that this is a user-switch, so it should have text
somewhere saying "Switching User"
* It should be easy to cancel the user switch, so a cancel button should be
added to the screen, (instead of users having to use Options->Quit)
* If FUSA was used to select the user to switch to, gdm simply asks for the
password, not saying which user the password is for.
* If a user was pre-selected, it should still give an option to change to other
users. At the moment if FUSA is used, the password is asked for repeatedly with
no option to log in as a different user instead.
* A lot of this makes it very confusing if someone starts the process of
switching users and then walks off -- anyone else that comes along sees a login
screen but they keep getting asked for a single password with no indication of
whose password they should be entering. They will probably restart the computer,
losing the already logged-in users' data.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-2.19.3-2.fc8
fast-user-switch-applet-2.18.0-1.fc8
gnome-screensaver-2.19.1.1-1.fc8

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 07:22:55 UTC

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Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 04:39:59 UTC

Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is 
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