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Re: split greeter revert

 

after reboot it works properly

/sebastian


2014-06-13 18:43 GMT+02:00 Sebastian Gomułka <sebastian.gomulka@xxxxxxxxx>:

> 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
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Kevin Gunn <kevin.gunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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>>
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>> -mt
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