Description of problem: According to gdm documentation: http://library.gnome.org/admin/gdm/2.28/gdm.html "The Face Browser is configured to display the users who log in most frequently at the top of the list." This appears to work in F11 (gdm 2.26.1) but sometime during the F12 cycle it stopped working. Since I have no idea where gdm keeps the information as the the list order, I cannot look to see if things there are correct or not. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): F12-rawhide, gdm-2.28.1-5.fc12.x86_64
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle. Changing version to '12'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Thank you for the bug report. I can confirm the issue with gdm-2.28.1-24.fc12. GDM uses an alphabetical order and does not pop frequently used accounts up. --- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
This request contradicts the one in bug 458162.
I am the person who filed 458162 I guess the problem in part is that I really was not looking for alphabetic list, but that would seem logical. More inportant is that the login list doesn't give away security information. If the users listed are the ones who login the most this is information that is not necessarily something we want everyone to know. Actually I prefer going back to the old version if where you had to enter a user id and password to get on the machine. GDM used to have the flexibility to handle different configurations like this, but no longer does. This is an major set backwards.
GDM is still in need of the ability to be customized to the needs of the site. This "new improved" version is a almost total step backwards several versions almost to the beginning of the project. I have yet to see even one advantage to the new system.
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