Shane O'Connor wrote:
> I think the important think (and the point Bob was making) is to have
> the same experience with both dtlogin and gdm
That's only possible by crippling gdm or putting a lot more effort into
dtlogin, but why? Should we also insist on the same experience with the
entire CDE & JDS desktops? The whole reason we have two is because
they're not the same.
(That said, dtlogin & gdm out of the box will look a lot more like each
other soon in both Nevada & S10U2 thanks to the CoolStart unified look
and feel project - but they will still not be identical.)
> if dtlogin is on the way out is the intention to replace it with gdm?
Yes - the plan of record is to make gdm the default as soon as it offers
all the required functionality now found in dtlogin - including better
Sun Ray support, a way to get to a console login (whether that be the
hack dtlogin uses or a simple switch-to-text-mode-virtual-console option
once virtual consoles are back into the Solaris kernel), and a few other
things. The current GDM release has already added a bunch of things
that were needed for this and missing from the GNOME 2.6 gdm currently
shipped - Brian Cameron has the full to-do list of what's been done and
what's left to do.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
