On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 12:31 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: > Shaun: > > > So the question here is not "Does LightDM better serve > > the needs of some GNOME-based operating systems?" The > > question is simply "Should LightDM replace GDM as the > > display manager for GNOME?" > > Perhaps I am confused, but I thought that the recent moduleset > reorganization was designed to get The GNOME community out of the > business of having to decide whether to promote one program over > another, when they do the same sorts of things. A common example being > should GNOME promote rhythmbox or banshee? I did not think there was a > need to decide whether one should replace the other for both to be > considered GNOME modules. Or perhaps I misunderstand the goals of the > moduleset reorganization.
As Shaun mentioned, apps != core. We don't promote Banshee over Rhythmbox (as per your example), but we don't promote alternatives to gdm, gnome-session, gnome-control-center, gnome-settings-daemon, gdm, nautilus, or gnome-shell (non-exhaustive list). > Perhaps "display manager" programs are special in some way that only > allows for one to be approved at a time. But I do not remember anyone > discussing any special considerations like this in this thread. It's special in that it's one of the programs binding the rest of the OS with GNOME as a desktop environment. So, yes, it wouldn't be something for which we'd advertise a replacement unless that replacement was actually putting GDM out of business. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
