Bug 148460 – "gentoo" theme in gdm-themes aparently broken.

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) 2006-09-21 00:05:36 UTC]

the theme in "13475-GDM-gentoo.tar.bz2" has a small cosmetic problem in it which makes it a little un-usable. For some reason the gentoo.xml file specifies the dimensions for the password dialogue box to be -2 x -2, making it impossible to see user input, and it applies to not only the password entry, but username entry, and is most annoying. 

This is possibly an attempt by the designer to hide password input, but I believe that choice should be user  specified. 

The fix is only a 1 liner, 

--- /usr/share/gdm/themes/gentoo/gentoo.xml     2006-07-10 10:28:53.000000000 +1200
+++ /usr/share/gdm/themes/gentoo-f/gentoo-f.xml 2006-09-21 18:45:02.000000000 +1200
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
             <pos anchor="nw" x="0" height="24" width="160" />
             <fixed>
               <item type="entry" id="user-pw-entry">
-                <pos anchor="nw" x="1" y="1" height="-2" width="-2" />
+                <pos anchor="nw" x="1" y="1" height="24" width="200" />
               </item>
             </fixed>
           </item>


you may note I've produced a split off version myself, in case the dev for this decides not to make the fix, then it will cease clobbering my preference. Possibly the designer may want to provide a "no passwords stars" and "password stars" edition.

reguardless tho, a the bug of the username not being shown should be fixed, other wise it would lead people to belive this lovely elegant theme ( which imo should be the default gentoo gdm theme ) is broken.

[Comment 1 Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) 2006-09-21 00:10:05 UTC]

noted, it has aparently been fixed upstream. 

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=13475

[Comment 2 Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) 2006-09-21 00:27:52 UTC]

seems the gentoo mirror ( distfiles.gentoo.org ) has a stale copy ( dated 2004 O_o ), and the MD5sums/sizes don't match that  of the latest from GNOME-Look.org

MD5 252b004704b64fbb40e6b69091e6fac0 13475-GDM-gentoo.tar.bz2 41027   <<-- gentoos 
MD5 11e1ff39aaf11b7d6dc9ec243c00ca7c  13475-GDM-gentoo.tar.bz2 41054 <<-- gnome looks


so it looks like  a case of download/ebuild digest/release

( and im hoping its just not a case of my portage being stale and not updating somehow.. this bug has been around for 6 months now, and if gnome-look is to be believed, this fix has been out 3 weeks )

[Comment 3 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2006-11-06 13:30:21 UTC]

Is this still a problem?  The theme works fine for me...

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-07-03 11:12:25 UTC]

Closing.