John: I wouldn't say that GDM is "tied" to GNOME. GDM doesn't use much of the GNOME stack aside from GTK and libgnomecanvas. Some gdm-related GUI programs (such as gdmsetup) use libglade as well, but libglade isn't used by the actual login programs. In the real world many KDE users use GDM and many KDM users use KDE. KDM and GDM have different features, so people who want particular features pick the login program they like.
I believe you can, if you want, use XDM on Solaris. It doesn't support some features that would be needed for it to be a default login program. Features like Solaris audit, logindevperm, Sun Ray support, etc. As long as you don't need such features, then it should be possible to get XDM working. Brian >>> John Sonnenschein wrote: >>>> So, GDM is rather large, and very tied to the GNOME desktop >>>> environment, >>>> dtlogin is being sadly jettisoned, and everyone seems opposed to >>>> xdm for >>>> some reason. >>> can you (or someone else) elaborate on those reasons? >> the PSARC case to remove CDE was approved yesterday, so that's why >> dtlogin's going away. I'm not sure why xdm isn't being chosen as the >> default login and GDM is, but that's what I've been told by the people >> in charge of the case.
