It sounds like a better idea. Most of the auth stuff exists I guess the experience wouldn't need to be too dissimilar to the screen lock. So the DM would work regardless of what engine or OS you used (as long as E runs).
On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 1:31 PM, michael bouchaud < michael.bouch...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
