The sad part is they didn’t. GTK has (or had) a sliding infoline widget, which is used to show notifications. GDM used it for password related prompts. It actu

The sad part is they didn’t. GTK has (or had) a sliding infoline widget, which is used to show notifications. GDM used it for password related prompts. It actually relayed PAM messages to that widget. We were doing mass installations backed by an LDAP server which had password policies, including expiration enabled. That widget had a bug, prevented it displaying a new message when it was in the middle of an animation, which effectively ate messages related to LDAP (Your password will expire in X days, etc.). Also we needed a keyboard selector in that window, which was absent. I gave heads up to the GDM team, they sent a “go ahead” as a reply. I have written an elaborate patch, which they rejected and wanted a simpler one. I iterated the way they wanted, they said it passes the muster and will be merged. Further couple of mails never answered. I’m basically ghosted. But the merge never came, and I moved on.