Am Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:20:30 +1000 schrieb David Seikel:
> On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:11:55 +0100 Andreas Volz <li...@brachttal.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Am Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:12:26 -0500 schrieb Michael Blumenkrantz:
> >
> > > On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:03:59 +0100
> > > Vincent Torri <vincent.to...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Andreas Volz
> > > > <li...@brachttal.net> wrote:
> > > > > Hello together,
> > > > >
> > > > > anyone yet thought about writing a EFL greeter frontend for
> > > > > LightDM?
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LightDM
> > > > >
> > > > > It's currently default in Ubuntu 11.10:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/LightDM
> > > > >
> > > > > I think it's an easy way to get an EFL login. What do you
> > > > > think?
> > > >
> > > > we have elsa, which is working quite nicely
> > > >
> > > > Vincent
> > > I could be wrong, but I think that his point was that it would
> > > make it easier to have e included in distributions which ship
> > > this DM. AFAIK, elsa is not included in any distribution.
> >
> > Yes this is the point. And additional there're some important points
> > for me:
> >
> > - I like to use stable software as DM as other people using
> > Gnome/Unity on same PC are using it too. There's zero tolerance if
> > one commit makes problems and elsa is bad working for at least
> > some days.
> >
> > - It's less effort to only write a greeter then a DM.
> >
> > - I've written some E/gdm plugin to switch users/sessions. Now with
> > LightDM it's not longer working, but I could port one again. I'm
> > not sure if Gnome/Unity is able to do a user session switch with
> > elsa.
>
> I wonder how light LightDM really is? It's out of FDO, people not
> known for their ability to write lightness.
>
> I stopped using elsa coz it wont start up again when I log out. I'll
> try it again sometime later to see if that got fixed.
Hehe, this is exactly the reason why I stopped to use "experimental"
DMs. Have you ever explained your wife why she couldn't login in her
desktop all the day while I'm at work only because I recompiled E the
night before. :-P
regards
Andreas
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