Re: [Oneiric-Topic] GTK3/GNOME3

2011-04-10 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 09:12 +1000, Robert Ancell wrote: > On 04/07/2011 05:59 PM, Martin Pitt wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > kind of obvious topic, but next cycle we'll need to move to GTK3 and > > GNOME3. Aside from the obvious "update the package versions", I see > > the following particular chall

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] LightDM for display management

2011-04-10 Thread James Westby
On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:02:35 +1000, Robert Ancell 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 line C program and we > c

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

[Oneiric-Topic] Packaging branches

2011-04-10 Thread Robert Ancell
We currently maintain most Ubuntu Desktop packages in bzr branches and use bzr-builddeb in merge mode [1] with packaging stored in lp:~ubuntu-desktop/package_name/ubuntu. The other option was to use normal mode [2], but this was not chosen at the time due to the size of checkouts. My experience s