GDM2 2.20.4 (stable), the "Tlahuac" Release

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

AOOH-GAH
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If you have no clue what GDM is, refer to the documentation links
at the bottom of this announcement.

The 2.20.4 release is a stable release of the GNOME Display Manager
(GDM) program with the following bug fixes and improvements:

- The Custom Widgetry code in gdmgreeter was broken, and would not
  create the /var/lib/$DISPLAY.GreeterInfo file properly.  Due to the
  move away from vicious-extensions and towards GKeyFile, the format of
  this file changed slightly to INI format with the [GreeterInfo] group.
  The docs were modified to explain this change.

- Now the default local and remote welcome strings ("Welcome" and
  "Welcome to %n") are translated.  (Wouter Bolsterlee, Brian Cameron,
  Frederic Crozat)

- If the user picks the default local welcome string to be used as the
  remote welcome string, or vice versa, then the strings will be
  translated also.  (Brian Cameron, Frederic Crozat)

- Get default locale from LC_MESSAGES rather than from
  g_get_language_names.  Fixes bug #517670.  (Ray Strode)

- Honor GTK+ default password character rather than hardcoding to '*'.
  The docs were modified to explain this change.  Fixes bug #477881.
  (Alexander "weej" Jones)

- Provide better tooltip for entry field in gdmgreeter.  (Roberto
  Sarrionandia)

- Get the environment variable XDG_DATA_DIRS before clearing the
  environment variables.  This way if the user sets XDG_DATA_DIRS before
  running GDM, this should now be honored.  (Brian Cameron)

- Fix gdmsetup bug that was causing the Welcome (local and remote)
  message to not be saved properly when changed.  (Brian Cameron)

- Fix the setting of the custom command NOTIFY key to avoid crashing
  when changing the label values of a custom command in gdmsetup.
  (Brian Cameron)

- Add include of "gdm-log.h" to daemon/verify-crypt.c and
  daemon/verify-shadow.c to fix compile issue on some platforms.  (Simon
  Munton)

- Translation updates (Djihed Afifi, Takeshi AIHANA, Arangel Angov,
  Wouter Bolsterlee, Baris Cicek, Pawan Chitrakar, Wadim Dziedzic, Maxim
  Dziumanenko, Luca Ferretti, Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle, Gil Forcada,
  Jorge Gonzalez, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan, Gabor Kelemen, Peter Kovar,
  Duarte Loreto, Kjartan Maraas, Gintautas Miliauskas, Inaki Larranaga
  Murgoitio, Kenneth Nielsen, Daniel Nylander, Kostas Papadimas, Ankit
  Patel, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, St\303\251phane Raimbault, Hendrik
  Richter, Changwoo Ryu, \303\205smund Skj\303\246veland, Marcel Telka,
  Mugurel Tudor, Ilkka Tuohela, Philip Withnall)

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.

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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Online Documentation - http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/
Latest Stable        - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.20/
Latest Unstable      - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.21/
Bug Reporting        - http://bugzilla.gnome.org in the "gdm" category.

Have fun,

Brian