On 26-Nov-07, at 10:56 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 26/11/2007, John Sonnenschein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On 26-Nov-07, at 10:28 AM, Michael Schuster wrote: >> >>> John Sonnenschein wrote: >>>> So, GDM is rather large, and very tied to the GNOME desktop >>>> environment, >>>> dtlogin is being sadly jettisoned, and everyone seems opposed to >>>> xdm for >>>> some reason. >>> >>> can you (or someone else) elaborate on those reasons? >> >> the PSARC case to remove CDE was approved yesterday, so that's why >> dtlogin's going away. I'm not sure why xdm isn't being chosen as the >> default login and GDM is, but that's what I've been told by the >> people >> in charge of the case. > > Probably because GNOME is Sun's desktop choice so it makes logical > sense?
it doesn't make logical sense to me, but I'm inclined to look for what we'd gain by having it rather than the lighter-weight option, and so far all we gain from gdm over xdm is pretty background images... hence my looking for alternatives that satisfy that need and don't result in the huge gamut of ram-hungry dependencies that GDM has _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
