Hi,
How is the accessibility support on the htm greater? El 13/05/2011 14:59, "Robert Ancell" <[email protected]> escribió: > I'm proposing LightDM [1] as a replacement for GDM. I started the > proposal for this in GNOME 3.0 [2] but due to the young age of the > project I thought it better to wait until 3.2 before making a full > proposal. This is it. I apologise this has been done after the > proposal period. > > Why replace GDM? > > - LightDM is a cross-platform solution. Ubuntu is planning to switch > to it this cycle, and other distributions have expressed interest in > the project. By sharing this piece of infrastructure GNOME can spend > more time working on important GNOME components. LightDM is aligned > with freedesktop.org. > > - I am confident that the LightDM architecture is simpler than GDM. > Some indicators of this: > - Smaller code size > - Well defined interface between greeter and session > - Less dependencies > - Less internal interfaces > Architecture can be a personal opinion, and I encourage those with > programming experience to look at the code and decide for themselves. > Note that LightDM is not lighter in features, but in architecture. > > - By having a well defined interface between the greeter and daemon, > it is significantly easier to develop a greeter without knowledge of > how display management works. This is useful as the skillset and > motivations of these two sets of developers are different. > > - LightDM is a platform for future work and is investigating the use > of new technologies like Wayland. > > The details: > Purpose: Cross-desktop display manager > Target: desktop > Dependencies: libglib, libpam, libxdmcp, libxcb, libxklavier, > gobject-introspection, libgtk+ > Resource Usage: Launchpad for source control and bug tracking [1], > tarballs in public ftp [3] (in process of moving to freedesktop.org) > Adoption: Accepted for use in Ubuntu 11.10, interest from other distributions > 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] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2010-October/msg00226.html > [3] http://people.ubuntu.com/~robert-ancell/lightdm/releases/ > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
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