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authorMike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>2014-11-02 20:40:40 +0100
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+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 14.04.10
+
+ - Require user to acknowledge messages received after authentication is
+ complete, for example if their password is about to expire.
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 14.04.9
+
+ - Correctly handle SIGTERM and quit cleanly. We were previously not stopping
+ the signal and so not cleaning up on exit. This left an upstart process
+ for each greeter remaining.
+ - If a user has an invalid session, then use the system default session
+ - Correctly handle sessions not starting
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 14.04.8
+
+ - Allow unity-settings-daemon to blank the screen by implementing the
+ gnome-screensaver and gnome-session d-bus interfaces.
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 14.04.7
+
+ - Own the com.canonical.UnityGreeter D-Bus name
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 14.04.6
+
+ - Add option to hide certain users until alt+ctrl+shift is pressed.
+ - Show a warning when shutting down and users are logged in.
+ - Drop some fixes that are in Vala 0.22 now.
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 14.04.5
+
+ - Don't focus windows that set override-redirect. This was causing a
+ gnome-screensaver window to get focus when it shouldn't.
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 14.04.4
+
+ - Add primary monitor support
+ - Fix the greeter authenticating twice when it starts
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 14.04.3
+
+ - Generate version stamp on background
+ - Add option to disable hostname in login screen
+ - Use unity-settings-daemon instead of gnome-settings-daemon
+ - Fix accessible name in shutdown dialog
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 14.04.2
+
+ - Handle a window being destroyed after we get the map event and try and
+ focus it
+ - Add accessible description to back button
+ - Fix attempted removal of dead source
+ - Apply the same unity color corrections to the average color in shutdown
+ dialog
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 14.04.1
+
+ - Complete unity style shutdown dialogs (chameleon colours, spacing,
+ blurring, click outside to close, fading, assets, keyboard focus)
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 14.04.0
+
+ - Use Unity style shutdown dialogs
+ - Handle hardware power button in greeter
+ - Use an Upstart process to start indicator services
+ - Fix build with Vala 0.22
+ - Clean up compile warnings
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 13.10.3
+
+ - Have sound indicator appear again, after the indicator file changed names
+ - Replace old hardcoded keyboard indicator with indicator-keyboard
+ - Remember last logged in user for each seat
+ - Show gnome badge for all gnome fallback/flashback sessions
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 13.10.2
+
+ - Support new indicator services from /usr/share/unity/indicators
+ - Use the utf chars for ellipses
+ - Allow displaying only the remote login entry, without adding a fallback
+ manual login option, if the config files requests it
+ - Update code to work with valac 0.20
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 13.10.1
+
+ - Fix test failure due to warnings from libraries
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 13.10.0
+
+ - Update logo for 13.10
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 13.04.2
+
+ - Spawn gnome-settings-daemon directly, not via DBus, as newer versions
+ dropped the DBus interface.
+ - Fix duplicate entries showing for multiple users on the same remote login
+ service.
+ - Allow administrators to specify which indicators to load via gsettings.
+ - Allow custom indicators to switch which user is selected via a session
+ DBus interface.
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 13.04.1
+
+ - Update logo for 13.04
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 13.04.0
+
+ - Support timed login
+ - Drop OK button in session chooser
+ - Various small layout changes
+ - Fix orca not closing when disabled
+ - Fix display corruption when logging in
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 12.10.4
+
+ - Fix rendering of password entry's spinner
+ - Fix rendering of password entry's cursor after closing a dialog
+ - Fix slight pixel jump in names as they finish scrolling
+ - Fix not being able to click on first few sessions in session chooser
+ - Cleanly close onboard keyboard to prevent it crashing on login
+ - Use a lightdm hint for controlling whether remote login is enabled
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 12.10.3
+
+ - Rearrange some UI bits
+ - After a remote login error, do not use cache when trying same user again
+ - When no users and no manual entry, force manual entry to appear
+ - When switching between monitors, re-adjust user names
+ - Center remote login help dialog
+ - Use the xsettings plugin to apply icons-in-menus gsetting
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 12.10.2
+
+ * Require lightdm 1.3.3
+ * Disable prompts for remote servers we don't locally support
+ * Tell the network indicator to hide some unused UI
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 12.10.1
+
+ * Show network indicator
+ * Add support for remote logins
+ * Show onboard keyboard on startup if enabled already
+ * Support multiple simultaneous prompts from PAM
+ * Fix tabbing through widgets sometimes taking too many tabs
+ * Set average background colour atom based on background
+ * Add a man page
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 12.10.0
+
+ * Update version logo
+ * Don't write garbage data to state cache file
+ * Remove workaround for gnome session being Unity
+ * Make sure background alpha is never stuck at non-1.0 value, blocking login
+ * Update badge when default_session changes, just like we do when the
+ session changes
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 0.2.8
+
+ * Add play-ready-sound option to control making a sound when the greeter
+ loads
+ * Add background-color option to set the background color before the
+ background is rendered
+ * some minor design fixups
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 0.2.7
+
+ * Fix onscreen keyboard not working
+ * Fix crashes when manual login is enabled
+ * Show manual login when guest is only other user
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 0.2.6
+
+ * Fix the corruption between unity-greeter and Unity loading
+ * Fix crash when reloading background images
+ * Fix displayed name of keyboard layout with some variants
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 0.2.5
+
+ * Don't allow dragging the window by the top bar
+ * Fix keyboard navigation
+ * Fix prompt entry text not showing in some themes
+ * Fix Orca command line so it works with version 3.3.90+
+ * Show "Retry" instead of "Login" if a no-prompt login fails
+ * Show manual login option when no users available
+ * Show manual login option if hint is present
+ * Show PAM prompts, albeit not in a pretty fashion
+ * Allow pressing Escape to cancel a misbehaving login
+ * Tweaked animations
+ * Update logo to add "LTS"
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 0.2.4
+
+ * Don't crash when all monitors are the same size
+ * Use OS icon instead of cog for session selector
+ * Show arrow on password entry to indicate will login
+ * Show session chooser dialog instead of a menu
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 0.2.3
+
+ * Play system-ready sound on startup
+ * Fix placement of user-is-logged-in arrow
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 0.2.2
+
+ * Support multi-monitor
+ * Add messaging indicator
+ * Add a11y shortcuts
+ * Remember a11y settings
+ * Launch at-spi so Orca works
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 0.2.1
+
+ * Fix session menu button not showing for first user
+ * Skip indicators that fail to load
+ * Distribute translations correctly
+ * Load indicators from location specified in pkg-config
+ * Use gsettings instead of /etc/lightdm/unity-greeter.conf
+ * Accept numpad arrow key presses
+ * Instead of showing all layouts in the system in the keyboard indicator,
+ only show the layouts a user has configured
+ * Don't crash if gnome-settings-daemon's gsettings schema isn't as expected
+ * Disable gnome-settings-daemon's new gsdwacom plugin as well as its older
+ wacom plugin
+ * Use vala-0.16 instead of valac-0.14
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 0.2.0
+
+ * Improve scrolling animation
+ * Select menubar when F10 is pressed
+ * Fix Orca not starting when enabling screen reader
+ * Add a keyboard indicator
+ * Always focus new windows
+ * Check version of Vala when compiling
+ * Update logo for 12.04
+ * Use default invisible character in password dialog
+ * Darken indicator bar
+ * User smaller grid size
+ * Put end-stops on user list scrolling
+ * Only fade out user labels that can't fit in completely
+ * Center dots
+ * Add translator comments
+ * Add option to disable dots
+ * Only redraw parts of the screen that have changed
+ * Don't run the greeter if can't connect to daemon and not in test mode
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 0.1.1
+
+ * Stop loading indicators in a thread - they don't seem thread safe
+ * Fade usernames so it looks more like a carousel
+ * Darken indicator background so they are easier to read
+ * Fade out long messages
+ * Remove "Other" entry when using user list
+ * Don't run the greeter if can't connect to daemon and not in test mode
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 0.1.0
+
+ * Fix greeter running in loop when greeter-hide-users=true
+ * Remember the last selected user between logins
+ * Select correct session when logging in manually
+ * Fix non-translation of password prompt
+ * Resize background when resizing window
+ * Move/resize window when monitors changed
+ * Disable xrandr gnome-settings-daemon plugin - always mirror the displays
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 0.0.9
+
+ * Set background color of window to "dark aubergine" so boot delays
+ don't cause a white flash
+ * Kill onboard on exit to stop window showing up
+ * Don't give the onscreen keyboard focus, this makes it work
+ * Load indicators sequentially, they seem to crash loading in parallel
+ * Fix translations not being used
+ * Show authentication messages as well as prompts
+ * Disable the text entry after text has been entered
+ * Don't start authentication as each user is added to the user list
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 0.0.8
+
+ * Fix grid offset
+ * Fix non-latin names being displayed incorrectly
+ * Change asynchronous indicator loader code, suspect it is causing a race
+ condition?
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 0.0.7
+
+ * Show caps-lock warning in password field
+ * Use constant time animation
+ * Render background images in a background thread
+ * Load indicators in a thread
+ * Add timing to logs
+ * Add more logging messages
+ * Fade out long names
+ * Wait until background is loaded before showing the main window - stops
+ a white flash being seen on startup.
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 0.0.6
+
+ * Fix password cursors not getting focus
+ * Make logo configurable again
+ * Disable FUSE
+ * Show if users are currently logged in
+ * Update user list when users are added/removed/modified
+ * Use select user hint to select the correct user
+ * Fix vertical grid alignment of user list
+ * Add accessibility menu with high contrast, screen reader and onscreen
+ keyboard
+ * Make use of hide users hint
+ * Change "Other..." entry to match username being entered
+ * Rename "Guest Account" to "Guest Session" to match desktop
+ * Don't give keyboard focus to session selector when clicking on it
+ * Stop hostname being selectable
+ * Hide the "Other..." entry when user list showing
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 0.0.5
+
+ * Use Ubuntu regular font
+ * Increase grid size to match design
+ * Reduce width of login box
+ * Use correct Ubuntu logo
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 0.0.4
+
+ * (Not released due to broken bzr tag)
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 0.0.3
+
+ * Set icon theme
+ * Use power indicator
+ * Setup indicators to run in greeter mode
+ * Allow OS name and version to be configurable
+ * Run gnome-settings-daemon to get power management, a11y, xrandr etc
+ * Fix translations
+ * Get menubar with transparent background (finally)
+ * Update to latest design
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 0.0.2
+
+ * Add copyright headers to .vala files
+ * Update to work with lightdm 0.9
+ * Add a config file and load Ambiance theme
+ * Fit to primary monitor
+ * Set root background
+
+Overview of changes in unity-greeter 0.0.1
+
+ * Initial release