It appears that their are some new developments in the work around the GDM login screen. for those of you who are not familiar with GDM, it is the main screen you use to login to a Gnome based Linux system (example:fedora, ubuntu, etc). It is theme-able and can look very cool. See below examples:
these Themes while cool are static. There are not nice animations or pretty 3D effects. But that is all about to change. There is a Clutter based GDM in the works. You can see examples of it in use HERE or visit the project page located Here.
Clutter GDM apparently will also have the ability to remove the photos of users from the GDM as you type a login name, limiting the results.
I was just reading about the Clutter GDM development being done. At the same time I also was reading that their is some kind of "face recognition" software being developed for Linux (as seen on ASUS and Lenovo Laptops)... Do you know where I would go to recomend the two projects collaborate? How cool would it be if the face recognition software could filter the photos based on identifying your face. Perhaps the photos of other users swirl around the screen as if being sucked down a black hole while the face recognition software is processing.
I am no programmer, but honestly that would be fantasticly awesome!!! I would not expect the face recognition to automatically log you in due to security issues with that (have a photo, get access...) but nothing wrong with limiting the list :)
these Themes while cool are static. There are not nice animations or pretty 3D effects. But that is all about to change. There is a Clutter based GDM in the works. You can see examples of it in use HERE or visit the project page located Here.
Clutter GDM apparently will also have the ability to remove the photos of users from the GDM as you type a login name, limiting the results.
I was just reading about the Clutter GDM development being done. At the same time I also was reading that their is some kind of "face recognition" software being developed for Linux (as seen on ASUS and Lenovo Laptops)... Do you know where I would go to recomend the two projects collaborate? How cool would it be if the face recognition software could filter the photos based on identifying your face. Perhaps the photos of other users swirl around the screen as if being sucked down a black hole while the face recognition software is processing.
I am no programmer, but honestly that would be fantasticly awesome!!! I would not expect the face recognition to automatically log you in due to security issues with that (have a photo, get access...) but nothing wrong with limiting the list :)
1 comment:
Hello ,
this is the face recognition software
http://code.google.com/p/pam-face-authentication/ , i was developing it , just now finished up KDM support , it used to work on Older GDM versions before 2.24, i still have to figure out a way to get it working with GDM
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