On 26-Nov-07, at 11:20 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > John Sonnenschein wrote: >> All those reasons seem to me to be reasons to use something other >> than >> xdm. I don't see that they're particularly good reasons to use GDM in >> particular, however. > > gdm just happens to be the one we have that fits the bill, since it > comes > with GNOME. Brian Cameron has had to do a lot of work on it to > bring gdm > up to the point where it can become the default display manager. > >> I'm still hoping to find an option that isn't so dependency laden & >> heavy. Which is why it's a shame dtlogin's being removed. > > But dtlogin is encumbered, so could only be in Solaris itself, and > every > other OpenSolaris distro would have to find something else anyway.
Which they will if GDM is chosen anyways. The GNOME distros will use GDM, and the KDE distros will use KDM, just like on other open-source operating systems. This is the default case, but no thought has been given to "is this a good thing", and my point is primarily to try to spark that discussion. Perhaps we /do/ want a unified login, and if that's the case neither desktop environment ought to take precedence as a dependency than the other. And on low-memory machines, loading the whole of gdm and it's dependencies is a lot of memory wasted if the user is going to then log in to something like fluxbox so as to avoid having to pull in GTK/ Qt.
