Hi, On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Brian Cameron <brian.came...@oracle.com> wrote: > Your report missed the following bug, which is a better example of some > of the more serious issues Canonical had working with upstream GDM: > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587750 > > As you can see in the bug report, Robert was not provided with much > real support or guidance about how to move forward As far as I know, every time "no gdmsetup" has been brought up the response has always been more or less that GDM shouldn't act like a bolted on app with its own setup UI. Instead, the various bits of configuration that are supported should be exposed in an integrated fashion with the rest of GNOME. That means putting some stuff in the (at the time unwritten but planned and frequently discussed) accounts dialog, relying on system default values for certain things, and potentially adding "Make default" buttons to places in control-center.
I know you and I personally discussed this at various points (and seemingly came to consensus on). I'm pretty sure Robert and I discussed it (but could be I'm misremembering and it was Martin or Sebastien I talked too, not 100% sure). Jon also sort of mentioned it on the bug report you point at above. Anyway, we can't all agree on every change. We have to evaluate each one on a case-by-case basis and do what's right for the project as a whole. I think on the whole, though, GDM does a pretty good job at what it's supposed to do, has a pretty good track record. It totally could be that this particular bug is the reason is Robert wrote LightDM. I don't know. I don't know the history there at all. I guess it doesn't *really* matter though. It's fine he's writing LightDM! I wish him the best for that project. I'm sure that project has its place and its own intrinsic value. I just don't think its place is in GNOME right now. We have something in that place already, and it's serving its role well enough. --Ray _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list