On 26-Nov-07, at 11:07 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: >> On 26/11/2007, John Sonnenschein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On 26-Nov-07, at 10:28 AM, Michael Schuster wrote: >>>> John Sonnenschein wrote: >>>>> So, GDM is rather large, and very tied to the GNOME desktop >>>>> environment, >>>>> dtlogin is being sadly jettisoned, and everyone seems opposed to >>>>> xdm for >>>>> some reason. >>>> can you (or someone else) elaborate on those reasons? >>> the PSARC case to remove CDE was approved yesterday, so that's why >>> dtlogin's going away. I'm not sure why xdm isn't being chosen as the >>> default login and GDM is, but that's what I've been told by the >>> people >>> in charge of the case. >> >> Probably because GNOME is Sun's desktop choice so it makes logical >> sense? > > I missed part of this thread, so am responding to what I see here. > I don't > know of any major opposition to xdm (and as the xdm maintainer for > the X.Org > community and the person who does the most work on Solaris's version > of xdm, > I'd hope they'd tell me), just a realization that gdm has more > features and > looks better. > > Specifically, gdm provides for accessibility helpers during login, > has much more > advanced theming support, is supported by Sun Ray's server for > adding and > removing Sun Ray displays on the fly, and probably has a few other > features I've > forgotten. > > None of this is impossible to do with xdm, if someone wanted to do > the work to > add all that, but why duplicate all that effort when gdm works? > Is there some > reason a user would prefer xdm over gdm? (The main reason I know > of xdm still > exists and is used is at sites who want the same login gui on all > their > different varieties of Unix machines, even the old ones without > GNOME.)
Okay, fair enough. 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. 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. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
