Hi Robert - Thanks for proposing this. I'm particularly interested in any and all speed improvements that could come from this...and if we have less overhead in general, great!
I look forward to the discussion. -Jason On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Robert Ancell <robert.anc...@canonical.com>wrote: > Last cycle I proposed using LightDM to replace GDM [1]. It was deferred > due to the Unity work, so time to repropose! > > The main reasons for switching are: > - Simpler code to maintain (GDM is a huge ~50,000 line C program and we > carry 36 patches. LightDM is nearer 10,000 lines of C). > - More flexible greeter development - greeters are as easy as X > applications to write, which means we can have an Ubuntu specific > greeter that without branching the rest of the code > - Speed improvements - we can run a greeter without running a full GNOME > session > - Display manager can be shared with Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu etc but > still allow each distro to have their own greeter. > > The current state of LightDM is "80% done" I would say. The core > architecture is all there, and it just needs a few weeks of solid work > to make it shine. > > [1] > > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/packageselection-desktop-n-display-manager > > -- > ubuntu-desktop mailing list > ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop >
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