[LightDM] Release Announcement: lightdm-webkit2-greeter v2.1.0

[Dustin Falgout]

The lightdm-webkit2-greeter team is pleased to announce the release of lightdm-webkit2-greeter 2.1.0!

Overview of changes in lightdm-webkit2-greeter 2.1.0It is now possible to configure branding including logos and backgrounds in lightdm-webkit2-greeter.conf.The GTK+ fade-out on-exit animation was removed in favor of allowing themes to handle the animation with webkit (via javascript) as the latter provides a much nicer effect. See the default antergos theme for an implementation example.Default theme changes:Theme is no longer compiled to ES2015 as Webkit2Gtk now supports ES6.The logo can now be configured in lightdm-webkit2-greeter.conf.The background images directory can also be configured in lightdm-webkit2-greeter.conf.Several small bug fixes, enhancements, and code cleanup commits also made it into this release.
Themes Javascript API Improvements:Themes can now easily query values from lightdm-webkit2-greeter.conf using the new global "config" object:config.get_str()config.get_num()config.get_bool()A new global object "greeterutil" was added to provide utility functions to themes. Newly added utility functions in this release are:greeterutil.dirlist() - List the contents of a directory.greeterutil.text2html() - Escape HTML entities in a string.Themes should now query the config file for the distro logo to use. See the default antergos theme for an implementation example.



-- Dustin FalgoutWeb Developer
E-mail: dustin at falgout.us
 		 	   		  
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