On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 14:54:53 +0000 Andrew Williams <a...@andywilliams.me> wrote:
> Hi team, > > From a somewhat outside perspective it seems that this thread is > confusing the direction or requirements of a window manager / user > desktop with those of a distribution. > If we decided to publish a DM that was a core app then fine. But if we > don't then it is not making life harder for users. They already have a > system installed which probably has a host of DMs to choose from. Any > distribution choosing to ship E can pick whatever DM (and login theme) > works for what they are trying to do. Problem is at least in my case with SDDM. They can cause some issues. SDDM on my laptop, but not desktop, would not turn off backlight or cursor. For either internal or external monitor, across 2 laptops. Desktop was never effected. > Unfortunately a login manager is really tough due to the number of > different systems and boot combinations etc that need to be supported > to do it properly. As we don't have much bandwidth to support things > I think it's entirely reasonable that other login managers should be > considered. Sure, but when people have odd issues that others are not experiencing. Even worse if they come from the DM, then you get the blame game, and maybe no one willing to spend time to fix. > Entrance was a great project for a while but as technologies moved on > we could not keep up. If it's to be maintained and released publicly > it's important to address that as well as stability issues etc. Not sure about technologies moved on. It has grub2, systemd, etc. Just not wayland, yet. Seemed more the original author lost interest. Thus it fell to others, not sure its moot, the past. The present is I am as time permits fixing issues and slowly getting it into hopefully a usable state for others. I am already using it, and short of not able to log out. It is working fine. Just need to start seeing what it will take to get it working for others. Mostly fixing issues, new features, etc are a long way off https://github.com/Obsidian-StudiosInc/entrance/commits/wltjr Started with 18 defects, it found a new one as I fixed 2 others, and seems a 3rd did not fix so remained. https://scan.coverity.com/projects/obsidian-studiosinc-entrance -- William L. Thomson Jr.
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