Hi, I'm a bit late for that, but it still time to discuss such topic.
LightDM [1] will be the next display manager for Ubuntu, and probably Xubuntu (maybe Kubuntu also !). It will replace GDM which have a tight dependency on GNOME. LightDM has the advantage to split the greeter (the UI part) and the core (which do all the black magic for users, consolkit etc ...). You can build a greeter which use GTK only, Qt, Webkit etc ... It's also heavily developed this cycle. Last cycle I tested LightDM, but found that it was not ready. Also, LXDM is now in a good shape. I tested it briefly on Oneiric, and it seems in better shape now, and with RAM usage similar to LXDM (3.2 vs 2.3 Mb) To summarize : Advantages: * More complete than LXDM * Maintenance shared with Ubuntu and Xubuntu * Heavily developed Disadvantages : * New and less tested in Lubuntu than LXDM * Dependant to Ubuntu team for changes : we are not free to modify the DM, and it's possible that Ubuntu team introduce a change which indirectly impact others flavors (remember Ubiquity changes for disk requierement last cycle) IMO, if items I mentioned at the UDS are managed by LightDM [2], we can try to switch for this cycle. If later in the cycle we discover that there are problems, we can still switch again to LXDM. What do you think ? Regards, Julien Lavergne [1] : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LightDM [2] : https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-o-lightdm _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
