No I don't use a dm today, I'm a single user on my laptop. And the plan is what raster ask and explain, e have got what we need to make a great login manager for e. What I have done is just make experiment with imfos module (into my branch) and try what we could do with security when logged. I do a little bootsplash with entrance code and go to the login screen without blinking at startup. But it was really hacky to make it works.
What we need to do is make a hook at e startup. To check if we are run as root and look if a "login" module is present. "login" could be defined by the type of the module. The login module proceed to log the user, place env vars and restart e. With this we could catch about all devices login procedures. desktop, tablet and phone. The config module could embed some widget from e_modules but with limited access (no file manager and limited setting panel). A note module could be great to let a "friendly" message to a user. About the bootsplash we need to make a little app to start quickly and require a minimum set of dependencies. Maybee the bootsplash could pass an ecore_evas buffer to e and start it early in boot process. The gui code of entrance could be a good startup for a new login module. But the rest of code :(, just picking some here and there. So I hope now you understand why my interrest into entrance is low since 2-3 years. 2017-06-18 11:48 GMT+02:00 Simon Lees <sfl...@suse.de>: > > > On 18/06/17 06:51, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Jun 2017 19:37:24 +0200 > > michael bouchaud <michael.bouch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Nothing about this fork, it's a great news and me too, I will enjoy > >> an e login manager ! > > > > I take it you are not using entrance now. What are you using then to > > log into E? To me having DM is pretty important. I typically have used > > ones bound to their desktop env like GDM and KDM, which KDM was dropped > > for SDDM. But according to KDE SDDM is their official DM. > > > > What is the official DM for E? Any? Seems to be a confusing situation. > > many working on different things. > > > > Like every desktop outside gnome/kde there isn't one, none have ever > reached a state where we could declare them stable and official but its > known that lightdm, gdm and sddm all launch enlightenment correctly, > atleast under X11. I know gdm has launched it under wayland as well at > one point although I never got to the bottom of who's fault it was > xwayland wasn't working. > > -- > > Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net > > Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek > SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 > GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > -- Michaël Bouchaud ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
