Bug#680519: please do depend on gdm3 for lxde-desktop
Touko Korpela touko.korp...@iki.fi wrote: Isn't it too big? for the live images, we've always been using gdm/gdm3 in lxde-desktop, for the installer (via tasksel), up to squeeze, gdm was used too. i don't think it's to big. having lxdm at some later point though, is nice, and i wouldn't mind the size decrease it bringts, however, until then the size difference doesn't matter much. otoh, choosing xdm is a no-go anyway, it doesn't support autologin (which is essential for live systems) and i don't think that the the installer (via tasksel) should use anything different than what we do with the live systems. Shouldn't it use lightdm by default like Xfce does? lightdm is relatively buggy, does not reasonably support autologin yet, and doesn't bring any advantages over gdm3. gdm3 is even smaller in footprint size than gdm in squeeze, hence, using gdm3 in wheezy rather than gdm in squeeze is already an improvement. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#680519: please do depend on gdm3 for lxde-desktop
Quoting Daniel Baumann (daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net): having lxdm at some later point though, is nice, and i wouldn't mind the size decrease it bringts, however, until then the size difference doesn't matter much. otoh, choosing xdm is a no-go anyway, it doesn't support autologin (which is essential for live systems) and i don't think that the the installer (via tasksel) should use anything different than what we do with the live systems. Shouldn't it use lightdm by default like Xfce does? lightdm is relatively buggy, does not reasonably support autologin yet, and doesn't bring any advantages over gdm3. gdm3 is even smaller in footprint size than gdm in squeeze, hence, using gdm3 in wheezy rather than gdm in squeeze is already an improvement. From my POV, I think the change from xdm to gdm3 seems quite a good change and inline with the policy we had up to now: leave such decision to those people who manage the different desktop distributions. So, I'd be OK with the change. Any objection from other people who happen to wake up for tasksel bug reports? signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#680519: please do depend on gdm3 for lxde-desktop
On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 06:53:13PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: Touko Korpela touko.korp...@iki.fi wrote: Isn't it too big? for the live images, we've always been using gdm/gdm3 in lxde-desktop, for the installer (via tasksel), up to squeeze, gdm was used too. i don't think it's to big. having lxdm at some later point though, is nice, and i wouldn't mind the size decrease it bringts, however, until then the size difference doesn't matter much. otoh, choosing xdm is a no-go anyway, it doesn't support autologin (which is essential for live systems) and i don't think that the the installer (via tasksel) should use anything different than what we do with the live systems. Shouldn't it use lightdm by default like Xfce does? lightdm is relatively buggy, does not reasonably support autologin yet, and doesn't bring any advantages over gdm3. gdm3 is even smaller in footprint size than gdm in squeeze, hence, using gdm3 in wheezy rather than gdm in squeeze is already an improvement. New lightdm (1.2.2-3) says to support autologin, but I haven't tested that. If you make this change, does it make Xfce+lxde CD-images try to pull Gnome depends in and make too tight to fit all? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#680519: please do depend on gdm3 for lxde-desktop
Daniel Baumann wrote: i don't think that the the installer (via tasksel) should use anything different than what we do with the live systems. That's backwards really. The live CDs should not be diverging from the tasks. lightdm is relatively buggy, does not reasonably support autologin yet, and doesn't bring any advantages over gdm3. gdm3 is even smaller in footprint size than gdm in squeeze, hence, using gdm3 in wheezy rather than gdm in squeeze is already an improvement. Are you thinking about #636104? It's fixed. Autologin works with lightdm in my experience. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#680519: please do depend on gdm3 for lxde-desktop
Joey Hess jo...@debian.org wrote: That's backwards really. The live CDs should not be diverging from the tasks. in lenny and squeeze, we had to as tasksel did not due the right thing out of the box and we spottet it to late in the release process. obviously, we're doing the oposite now (spotting it early, so that there does not need to be a difference between live and install). -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#680519: please do depend on gdm3 for lxde-desktop
Package: tasksel Hi, I'm one of the lxde maintainers in debian and we have the consens in the team that we are recommending gdm3 to be used as the display manager for lxde systems (which can be seen by e.g. looking at src:lxde-metapackages, until lxdm is in the archive for wheezy+1). Hence, please use gdm3 and not xdm in tasksel for lxde-desktop. Regards, Daniel -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#680519: please do depend on gdm3 for lxde-desktop
Daniel Baumann wrote: Hi, I'm one of the lxde maintainers in debian and we have the consens in the team that we are recommending gdm3 to be used as the display manager for lxde systems (which can be seen by e.g. looking at src:lxde-metapackages, until lxdm is in the archive for wheezy+1). Hence, please use gdm3 and not xdm in tasksel for lxde-desktop. Isn't it too big? Shouldn't it use lightdm by default like Xfce does? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
