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@@ -0,0 +1,345 @@ +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 |