On 11/15/05, Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Colin McDermott colmcd at optusnet.com.au
Fri Oct 7 20:06:32 CDT 2005
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<WDM is only a tiny bit heavier then XDM but a pain to configure. Plus
A shutdown button is really
< needed (Most users I know struggle to shut WDM down).
I have looked at both slim and gdm. I made a package out of slim but it is
a bit slow to start (actually to display/stretch the background jpeg) and does not have
all features needed from what I have seen. No ctrl-alt-bspace support for instance.
I admit to not having tested it much so if others have good experience with it please say so.
I also looked at what would it take to get gnome deps out of gdm and it looks doable, it did not
start out as a gnome app so it does not relay on too many of gnome libs.
I am confident I can make a working non-gnome version of it which we could use, and I think with keeping _most_ features already in gdm. This would have the advantage of having the same code as ubuntu even one more level up the stack, it has
support for suspend/hibernate and looks good too.
Again others' pro/con options of gdm are highly appreciated.
I still do not have any numbers on what performance/memory footprint penalty gnome libs incure
so this chopping out of gnome from evince/gdm may be unnecessary and for upstream at least, annoying.
I hope I'll have gtk-only packages of both in the future so they get more widespread testing.
Jani
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