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GDM2 2.8.0.7 (stable), the "Better for BSD" release

From:  Brian Cameron <Brian.Cameron-AT-Sun.COM>
To:  gnome-announce-list-AT-gnome.org, GNOME <gdm-list-AT-gnome.org>
Subject:  GDM2 2.8.0.7 (stable), the "Better for BSD" release
Date:  Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:56:44 -0600


AOOH-GAH
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(If you have no clue what gdm is, skip a few paragraphs down first)

The 2.8.0.7 release of GDM2 is a stable release which fixes
some significant build problems discovered since the last
release that affect BSD users and a few other minor bugfixes
and improvements.  See below for more details.

Changes

- Changes to peeking VT freeness in 2.13.0.1 broke
   virtual terminal support on BSD.  This release
   corrects this problem.  (Brian Cameron)

- Correct Linux get VT logic so it returns the
   correct VT.  (Frederic Crozat)

- Now gdmlogin always uses GDK_RGB_DITHER_MAX
   when painting the background to ensure a nice
   background regardless of X configuration
   (e.g. X in 16bpp mode).  (Frederic Crozat)

- Now check for Xserver in prefix /usr.
   (J\303\274rg Billeter)

- Fix configure for Darwin.  (dmacks@netspace.org)

- Fix compiler warnings. (Frederic Crozat,
   dmacks@netspace.org, Brian Cameron)

- Ensure gnome.desktop and default.desktop have
   644 perms.  (Andrew Benton)

- Translation updates (Takeshi AIHANA, Runa Bhattacharjee,
   Dan Damian, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan, Inaki Larranaga,
   Priit Laes, Roozbeh Pournader, Alexander Shopov, Marcel
   Telka, Miloslav Trmac)

Note:  GDM2 was originally written by Martin K. Petersen <mkp@mkp.net>.
Much work has been done on GDM2 by George Lebl, and Brian Cameron
currently shares maintainership duties with the Queen of England.

Note2:  If installing from the tarball do note that make install 
overwrites most of the setup files, all except gdm.conf.  It will
however save backups with the .orig extension first.

#ifndef GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED
Note3:  Note3 has been depracated ...
#endif /* GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED */

Downloading:
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Webpage: http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.8/

No RPM this time around BTW.  Have fun.  A spec file is included though,
so you can try:

   rpmbuild -ta gdm-whatever.tar.gz

Have fun,

Brian

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