Comments on: “Black and gold, black and gold…”

By: sergeyk

sergeyk — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:08:37 +0000

Hi! Great job!
Where i can download sources code for testing? O.o

By: Michele

Michele — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:34:06 +0000

There are many tools aviable to use the finger print reader under linux. I’m thinking of fprint, or thinkfinger, and many others that I don’t know. However this piece of hardware is not integrated into the system. This occours expecially at login: a finger print reader user finds very stupid the idea of entering his name with the keyboard and then pass the finger.. Since all people in the world is having a different fingerprint, you could simply login passing your finger on the device. No keyboard for the username; no extra time or actions for. If your fingerprint is recognized, OK, otherwise login failed.
This is just an example; fingerprints are useful in many other contexts that in linux are not used (firefox for example).
I was just wondering if you at canonical are aware of this ideas, that are not only mine. Many other people is just thinking on why they should first enter their name and then pass the finger. And if you think that finger readers are not so common, think that Dell is selling this on every laptop.. Lenovo and many others too…
What do you think about? Are we missing the train? Is this included in the spec? (sorry dude, it’s too long, and asking a question is easier )

Michele

By: Achim

Achim — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:39:28 +0000

I would like to know if the new GDM Will make it into Intrepid? I couldn’t find any information at your blueprint.
There is also no milestone set in which alpha the new gdm-face-browser maybe released.

I hope that I am not too curious. But it would be nice if you could enlighten me.

Regards
Achim

By: Hells_Dark

Hells_Dark — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:39:17 +0000

Really nice.
But i hope it will be as attractive with a SINGLE user

By: MacSlow

MacSlow — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:55:14 +0000

@ Sam: It certainly is.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:28:29 +0000

Is that title inspired by the Sam Sparro song?

By: MacSlow

MacSlow — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:03:46 +0000

@ Jacob: Some gut-feeling inside tells me that pigment and clutter will join development-forces to some extend… e.g. resulting the the very good gstreamer-integration of pigment being ported to clutter… same goes for pigments solid python-bindings. If I were you I would wait for that and go with clutter.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:40:14 +0000

In the past you were working with pigment, now that you have been developing with clutter, can you please make a similar comment than in http://macslow.thepimp.net/?p=115 when you compare pigment and clutter. Now you have worked with both tools, nobody better than you to make this comparison. I want to develop (in C) a videoconference interface with some of these tools. In pigment i miss the animation/timeline that clutter has (in pigment only there are animation/timeline control with python bindings.), in the other side a think that the support for Gstreamer seems better in pigment, what do you think?.

Good job with the gdm-face-browser, i like it!!!!

By: FAce Recognizer

FAce Recognizer — Mon, 12 May 2008 00:21:40 +0000

Why not use some face recognition software, e.g. in

http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hanlen/vision/facelinks.html

in order to automatically produce the username for the user,
or choose his/her picture for him/her?
The user would just need to type his/her password, instead of
having first to choose from a lot of (confusing?) pictures.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:20:57 +0000

I\\\’m drooling. That is really awesome. One question, as a lover of KDE and, of course, Kubuntu, will I be able to use gdm-face-browser with KDE? (I assume I will, but I didn\\\’t see anywhere to select a desktop.) Also will it be themable so as make it look like it belongs with Kubuntu. Keep up the great work.