From: Sam Spilsbury <[email protected]> > Just a few things to note: > - It seems to spawn about 4 or 5 server instances before it actually gets to > your session. Is this intended? > - LightDM doesn't appear to pull in your gtkrc or anything from > gnome-settings-daemon (eg a11y properties and the like). Will this be > resolved?
And now that someone mentiones a11y properties... Sorry, I haven't test it, but just a question. Is LigthDM accessible? Have you try something like the Smoke Test [1]. As far as I see you are proposing LightDM as a replacement. Are you proposing to remove GDM as a GNOME module and use LightDM (in the future)? Or your plan is have both? GDM is generally troublesome from a11y POV [2], but getting better. [1] http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/SmokeTesting [2] http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/GNOME3#gdm > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Robert Ancell > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I'm proposing LightDM [1] as a replacement for GDM. However, due to >> the young age of the project and the importance in the desktop stack I >> don't think it's ready for immediate adoption. I'd like to go through >> the proposal process, encourage feedback, encourage developers to try >> it during 3.0 and re-propose it for 3.2. >> >> Why replace GDM? >> - There are approximately 50,000 lines of code in GDM compared to >> about 5,000 in LightDM (they are both C+gobject based). This makes it >> significantly easier to work on. >> - The GDM greeter is slow due to it loading the GNOME session, the >> example GTK+ LightDM greeter is very lightweight (so is comparable to >> the speed of the old GDM and newer display managers like LXDM). >> - The GDM greeter has very limited themeing capabilities. A >> contributor to LightDM (PCMan) was able to quickly write a new greeter >> that used GtkBuilder and provided comparable themeing support to the >> old GDM. >> - While it is technically possible to write an alternate greeter for >> GDM, in practise it is too difficult. LightDM has been designed from >> the start to make writing a greeter no harder than a standard X >> application. >> - All X server users have pretty much the same requirements beyond the >> login GUI. By using LightDM the development effort of maintaining the >> display manager can be shared between projects (GNOME, KDE, LXDE, >> XFCE). >> >> Once the basics are complete, there are some innovations I'd like to build >> on: >> - Transitions between the greeter and the session (will work with the >> GNOME Shell team to make these possible). >> - Making the greeter provide authentication for the general desktop >> (e.g. for PolicyKit). The display manager can run X applications that >> use different authorization, thus stopping the session applications >> from snooping passwords. >> - Support for new XDMCP authentication/authorization schemes >> (XDM-AUTHORIZATION-2). >> >> The details: >> Purpose: Cross-desktop display manager >> Target: desktop >> Dependencies: libglib, libpam, libxdmcp, libxcb, libck-connector, >> libxklavier, gobject-introspection, libgtk+ >> Resource Usage: Launchpad for source control and bug tracking [1], >> tarballs in public ftp [2] (plan on moving to freedesktop.org) >> Adoption: Not currently used by default anywhere, being proposed for Ubuntu >> [3] >> GNOME-ness: Display manager is cross-desktop, example GTK+ greeter is >> fully GNOME compliant. I would recommend this module is maintained in >> the GNOME servers to get all the build and translation support. >> 3.0 readiness: GTK greeter currently using GTK2, but all other code >> uses latest GNOME standards. >> License: GPL3 >> >> [1] https://launchpad.net/lightdm >> [2] http://people.ubuntu.com/~robert-ancell/lightdm/releases/ >> [3] >> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/packageselection-desktop-n-display-manager >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-devel-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list >> > > > > -- > Sam Spilsbury _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
