Re: [Oneiric-Topic] LightDM for display management

2011-04-13 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 13 avril 2011 à 10:26 +1000, Robert Ancell a écrit : Sure, there are definitely a number of required services. Note I'm not ruling out running a GNOME session, it just depends if you can have a cut down enough session to make it work. The services you require in a login screen

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] LightDM for display management

2011-04-12 Thread Robert Ancell
On 04/11/2011 01:39 PM, James Westby wrote: On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:02:35 +1000, Robert Ancell robert.anc...@canonical.com wrote: Last cycle I proposed using LightDM to replace GDM [1]. It was deferred due to the Unity work, so time to repropose! The main reasons for switching are: -

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] LightDM for display management

2011-04-12 Thread Robert Ancell
On 04/11/2011 07:30 PM, Loïc Minier wrote: On Fri, Apr 08, 2011, Robert Ancell wrote: - Speed improvements - we can run a greeter without running a full GNOME session Running a full GNOME session sounds like a waste, but it kind of makes sense to run a mini-session to start the essential

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] LightDM for display management

2011-04-11 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Apr 08, 2011, Robert Ancell wrote: - Speed improvements - we can run a greeter without running a full GNOME session Running a full GNOME session sounds like a waste, but it kind of makes sense to run a mini-session to start the essential GNOME services and reuse GNOME infrastructure

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] LightDM for display management

2011-04-10 Thread Robert Ancell
On 04/08/2011 07:42 PM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: Le vendredi 08 avril 2011 à 19:04 +0930, Jason Warner a écrit : Thanks for proposing this. I'm particularly interested in any and all speed improvements that could come from this...and if we have less overhead in general, great! If you're

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] LightDM for display management

2011-04-10 Thread James Westby
On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:02:35 +1000, Robert Ancell robert.anc...@canonical.com wrote: Last cycle I proposed using LightDM to replace GDM [1]. It was deferred due to the Unity work, so time to repropose! The main reasons for switching are: - Simpler code to maintain (GDM is a huge ~50,000

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] LightDM for display management

2011-04-08 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 08 avril 2011 à 19:04 +0930, Jason Warner a écrit : Thanks for proposing this. I'm particularly interested in any and all speed improvements that could come from this...and if we have less overhead in general, great! If you're using GNOME, loading a whole GNOME session when starting