Re: ubuntu to switch to lightdm?

2011-05-12 Thread Richard Hughes
On 12 May 2011 12:41, Camilo Mesias wrote: > So, reading between the lines, is it fair to say that Ubuntu seem to > have chosen a display manager to avoid dbus and consolekit? I'm pretty sure Ubuntu chose it because it's not gdm. Differentiation FTW. Richard. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.

Re: ubuntu to switch to lightdm?

2011-05-12 Thread Camilo Mesias
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > I don't think the available information supports any such conclusions > concerning motivation.  If you want to know the motivations for the > decision hop the fence and go have a polite friendly chat about it > with the people who made the dec

Re: ubuntu to switch to lightdm?

2011-05-12 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Camilo Mesias wrote: > So, reading between the lines, is it fair to say that Ubuntu seem to > have chosen a display manager to avoid dbus and consolekit? I don't think the available information supports any such conclusions concerning motivation. If you want to

Re: ubuntu to switch to lightdm?

2011-05-12 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 01:01:24PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 17:12 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:29:18AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > > Which functions is it missing? > > > > Approximately anything that's been implemented in gdm since 2003. > >

Re: ubuntu to switch to lightdm?

2011-05-12 Thread seth vidal
On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 12:05 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 11:29 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 16:27 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:11:51AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > > > > Sounds interesting: > > > > > > > > http://digitizo

Re: ubuntu to switch to lightdm?

2011-05-12 Thread seth vidal
On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 17:12 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:29:18AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 16:27 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > It's less functional than gdm, and by the time it's as functional as gdm > > > it'll be larger than gdm becaus

Re: ubuntu to switch to lightdm?

2011-05-12 Thread Camilo Mesias
So, reading between the lines, is it fair to say that Ubuntu seem to have chosen a display manager to avoid dbus and consolekit? -Cam -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: ubuntu to switch to lightdm?

2011-05-12 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:11 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > Sounds interesting: > > http://digitizor.com/2011/05/12/ubuntu-11-10-lightdm/ Public discussion background see this thread: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2010-October/msg00226.html Specifically: http://mail.gnome.org/arch

Re: ubuntu to switch to lightdm?

2011-05-12 Thread Matej Cepl
Dne 12.5.2011 18:05, Adam Jackson napsal(a): >> Which functions is it missing? > > Accessibility, for one. And who cares about that ... :( (My wife has MS and writing on keyboard is getting to be difficult, so I am really disgusted with the level of ignoring a11y in most current project ... Gn

Re: ubuntu to switch to lightdm?

2011-05-12 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:29:18AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 16:27 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > It's less functional than gdm, and by the time it's as functional as gdm > > it'll be larger than gdm because it also has to be as functional as kdm. > > So I don't see any

Re: ubuntu to switch to lightdm?

2011-05-12 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 11:29 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 16:27 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:11:51AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > > > Sounds interesting: > > > > > > http://digitizor.com/2011/05/12/ubuntu-11-10-lightdm/ > > > > It's less functiona

Re: ubuntu to switch to lightdm?

2011-05-12 Thread seth vidal
On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 16:27 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:11:51AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > > Sounds interesting: > > > > http://digitizor.com/2011/05/12/ubuntu-11-10-lightdm/ > > It's less functional than gdm, and by the time it's as functional as gdm > it'll be l

Re: ubuntu to switch to lightdm?

2011-05-12 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:11:51AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > Sounds interesting: > > http://digitizor.com/2011/05/12/ubuntu-11-10-lightdm/ It's less functional than gdm, and by the time it's as functional as gdm it'll be larger than gdm because it also has to be as functional as kdm. So I don

ubuntu to switch to lightdm?

2011-05-12 Thread Neal Becker
Sounds interesting: http://digitizor.com/2011/05/12/ubuntu-11-10-lightdm/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel