on., 10.09.2008 kl. 14.49 +0200, skrev Vincent Untz: > Le mercredi 03 septembre 2008, à 22:27 +0200, Andre Klapper a écrit : > > We'd like to have a decision made by this weekend so there's two weeks > > left for translators. Comments highly welcome, so you can't blame > > release-team only in the end. ;-) > > Thanks everybody who jumped in the discussion. From what I see, there's > no consensus in this thread. > > An important thing for GDM is that in most cases, really, it's the > distributors that decide what gets shipped and I don't know a lot of > people using GDM from jhbuild. So keep in mind that the message that we > want to send is mainly to distributors (FWIW, some already chose to stay > with the old GDM, and some chose to go with the new one). > > I don't see us ignoring a good bunch of the comments (there are good > points on each side), so there are two ways to go forward: > > + use GDM 2.24, and mention that it is not ready for all uses (listing > the use cases where it needs work would help), and that GDM 2.20 is > still available and working. > > + stay with GDM 2.20, and mention that we have a new GDM coming soon. > > We kind of did solution b for 2.22, but it turned out not a lot of > people stepped up to fix the remaining issues in the new GDM. It could > be because the community was not aware of all this, though. > > Right now, I'm leaning towards solution a (assuming the new GDM works > fine and there's no major non-regression bugs). I'm not happy with > regressions (I'd say this is a good example to keep in mind when > reworking a module -- do not ignore the old feature set or clearly > explain why your remove some features), but I would think that without > sending a clear message, people will still stay with GDM 2.20 in 2.26, > and so on. > I'm leaning in the same direction. Having used the new GDM since it landed in rawhide (was that before even Fedora 9?) I must say that I've had no problems with it so far. None that haven't been fixed within a reasonable amount of time at least.
ObFutureVision: How about making GDM just be the gnome-screensaver unlock dialog and let everything else start in the background? :-) Cheers Kjartan _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
