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| 2019-08-28 |
elementary's new greeter |
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The elementary OS development team has unveiled a new greeter, also known as the login screen. The new greeter addresses a number of issues with the previous greeter. Some of these include caps lock and number lock indicators, clear separation between the guest account and regular user accounts and multi-display issues. These problems the team faced and their solutions are covered in a blog post that includes several screenshots: "There were a laundry list of motivations for rethinking the greeter and we approached the design from a lot of angles. Firstly, we had technical motivations. GTK has improved greatly over the last few years and Clutter has become abandoned. The old code base was a bit of a mess and made it difficult to fix issues or add new features. Clutter made it difficult to address issues that were trivial to solve in GTK, like making sure the clock doesn't overlap with the username and password. We also wanted to make sure that the new design ensured high contrast between text on the screen and the background; The old design didn't work well in situations where a user wanted to have a particularly bright wallpaper. Localization was a concern as well: users frequently told us they wanted to be able to select their own individual clock format. We also had loads of reported usability issues like the Guest session not being obviously differentiated from normal users, no indication of num or caps lock, cursor focus issues, multi-display issues, HiDPI issues, difficulty with identifying users who didn't set an avatar, and more."
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