On 2011-02-24 22:45:58 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 24 février 2011 à 22:32 +0100, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : > > I also think that > > * there should be some file mentioning the main differences (in > > particular, those not very visible) between gdm and gdm3; > > This is not the same software. It is not compatible. Should we also > document the differences with xdm, slim and kdm?
You miss the point that gdm3 is described as the successor of gdm: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=613491 ("please remove gdm from the unstable suite. It has been replaced by gdm3.") and shares the same name (GNOME Display Manager)[*]; gdm3 even conflicts with gdm (but not with xdm, slim and kdm). So, most admins will upgrade from gdm to gdm3 some day, thus users will be interested in such a file. [*] and the same product name in the upstream bug tracker? The README file says: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/simple-bug-guide.cgi?product=gdm (even though this URL is not valid). > > * there should be a dialog box at first install time mentioning > > these differences. > > WTF? Packages often do this when an upgrade yields incompatible changes that require attention. For the reasons why I consider this as an upgrade, see above. But if the end user is not the admin of the machine, such a dialog box would be useless, so perhaps not a good idea, finally. > > > It’s already documented, in the user manual. > > > > Which user manual? > > yelp ghelp:gdm That's not a standard way to read a manual file... perhaps under GNOME, but gdm is just a display manager shared by several users, and not all users use GNOME (FYI, I don't). Moreover this manual doesn't seem to mention the XAUTHORITY environment variable (that's the most important point, since this is what the user really sees about the location of the X authority file, and this is where something is likely to break, everything else being mostly internals). Also the manual should use the standard terminology, that is at least one of: .Xauthority file authorization file X authority file like in the main man pages about the subject (xauth(1), Xsecurity(7), X(7), Xserver(1)). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
