On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:02:35 +1000, Robert Ancell <[email protected]> wrote: > Last cycle I proposed using LightDM to replace GDM [1]. It was deferred > due to the Unity work, so time to repropose! > > The main reasons for switching are: > - Simpler code to maintain (GDM is a huge ~50,000 line C program and we > carry 36 patches. LightDM is nearer 10,000 lines of C). > - More flexible greeter development - greeters are as easy as X > applications to write, which means we can have an Ubuntu specific > greeter that without branching the rest of the code
I assume that the greeters can be written to be accessible via screenreaders etc, and that they can be localised etc as well? Thanks, James -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
