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Message #08574
Re: split greeter revert
After update to image #81 "answer the call" button doesn't show up. I can
only hear the ringtone.
/sebastian
2014-06-13 16:20 GMT+02:00 Michael Terry <michael.terry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Just a heads up, this landed in image 81!
> -mt
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> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Kevin Gunn <kevin.gunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>> A couple of weeks ago we landed what we refer to as the "split greeter".
>> "Split greeter" was in effect removing or "splitting" out the greeter from
>> the unity8 shell process and into it's own process. This feature is needed
>> for disk encryption, as well as secure multi-user support.
>>
>> After landing we've identified a handful of knock-on problems, mostly
>> around synchronization, listed here
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-greeter-session-broadcast/+bug/1328187
>> as well as a large increase in memory consumption.
>>
>> However based on some discussions across engineering teams & product
>> management, its been resolved this isn't a requirement in the RTM time
>> frame and we feel that its best to revert this feature in order to rethink
>> the architecture in order to better address the issues we've revealed in
>> our first attempt to deliver this feature, post RTM.
>>
>> I'll send another mail out when we've got the revert up in a silo for
>> testing.
>> br,kg
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