Hi, On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Brian Cameron <brian.came...@oracle.com> wrote: > Yes, you are right. GDM does not currently use OpenGL. > > My comment was meant to be understood as an example of how GDM may be > moving in a direction that requires certain hardware or only works on > certain operating systems. Sorry if I was not clear. For example, I > also raised concerns that the GDM/ConsoleKit evolution may be moving in > a Linux-focused direction. So to be concrete (for clairty to those following along that don't already know). Oracle ships a product called SunRay. It's a thin client system where the individual thin clients are treated as black box hardware devices that speak the X protocol. Some of these devices don't support certain X extensions GNOME rely on like RENDER and GLX. I think this is what Brian is alluding to (Brian, correct me if i'm wrong on any of the above).
> If GDM is evolving into a display manager with tight GNOME integration > that works only with specific hardware and/or operating systems, then > an alternative display manager may be needed by some users. Of course, that's fine. I don't think many would disagree with that. When developing your platform for SunRay, you've got to make choices that are appropriate for the technology you have. And it may be LightDM is the way to go for that product. Certainly, getting LightDM vetted through the ARC review process would be a good thing for it. SunRay is proprietary, though, and so kind of sits outside the focus of GNOME. But we've talked about this before, and I think we both agreed (right?) the choices you make for that platform may sometimes be orthogonal to and contrary with the choices we make together for GNOME. We all have several hats to wear and juggle I guess. > It is not really clear what the future GDM/ConsoleKit plans are in this >regards, > and nobody seems to clarify. Clearly, GDM should try to stay as closely aligned with the direction of GNOME as possible. Certainly that means gaining a GNOME 3 look and feel, and using the bits of the GNOME 3 library stack that make sense to use, etc. > Anyway, is there a real need or benefit to talk about Solaris GDM > participation in a discussion about whether to accept LightDM as a > module? Right, this is straying a bit off the original topic. --Ray _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list