The person that introduced me to Fedora had somehow made his login screen so that instead of typing in a password he used the "connect the dots" password that's popular on phones. Eg
On my touchscreen/stylus laptop, I'm interested in doing this as well. However I can't seem to find the plugin he was using, and I don't have contact with him anymore. Various searches for "Fedora connect the dots login" and "Fedora iPhone login" have unsurprisingly not yielded anything.
Does anyone happen to know the name of the plugin he was using that provides functionality like this in Fedora 15?
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I'm not finding anything either, but I'd venture to guess that it's relatively easy to do with Gnome. Gnome 3 interface is powered by CSS and various languages, including JavaScript, Python, Vala, and C/C++. I believe it also has APIs for responding to touch screens. live.gnome.org also makes mention of there being a "swipe password" option, so it's possible/likely it's built in (or accessible by extensions).
If you know/are willing to learn some CSS and a scripting language, you can probably build it yourself. Since, as the comments have said, I doubt something this cool wouldn't leave a trace on the Internet, I'd venture to guess it was a custom thing, perhaps that a friend of his did?
If you can't/don't want to dive into the code, then I'd try expanding your search a little to Gnome 3 (instead of just Fedora) and "swipe" or "touchscreen" extensions/themes.