On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 11:01 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > Le mercredi 08 juin 2011 à 01:09 -0700, Bryce Harrington a écrit : > > Boiling Matt's post down this is what I'm reading: > > > > 1. NIH > > 2. It doesn't start a GNOME session > > 3. Doesn't have arbitrary shiny stuff like slidy effects > > 4. Auto-update when users are created or deleted > > 5. Accessibility functionality UI > > 6. Gratuitously drawing a clock > > 7. Handle power policy via gnome-power-manager rather than via upower > > > > #1 yeah but whatever. #2 seems like a feature unless proven otherwise. > > #3 who cares. #4 ok, fair point, seems minor though. #5 important, but > > I think already under development. #6 yeah right. #7 huh? > As I see it, the problem is that when you'll have brought back > accessibility, power and sound management, you'll essentially have > started a GNOME session or an equivalent, losing a good part of the > "lightweight". Maybe I'm wrong, though - history will surely tell. > I think there's a fundamental difference between “start a full GNOME session and blacklist stuff that in inappropriate for a login screen” and “start the bits of a full GNOME session that a login screen needs”.
GDM apparently chooses the first route, which is why the recent security advisory where you could start a web-browser from the GDM screen with GDM's credentials can occur :).
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