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: >> - Simpler code to maintain (GDM is a huge ~50,000 line C program and we >> carry 36 patches. LightDM is nearer 10,000 lines of C). >> - More flexible greeter development - greeters are as easy as X >> applications to write, which means we can have an Ubuntu specific >> greeter that without branching the rest of the code > I assume that the greeters can be written to be accessible via > screenreaders etc, and that they can be localised etc as well? > > Thanks, > > James > That is the intention. If we use a GTK based greeter (as I would expect) there would be localization via the normal methods. Screenreader support is also a requirement.
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