On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 16:11:12 +0100 Christoph Wickert <[email protected]> wrote:
> Recently some system-config-* tools were moved from the base-x group > to their "appropriate desktop environments" [1] [2]. I think removing > them from base-x is a step in the right direction, but adding > system-config-* stuff and especially abrt-desktop or gnome-packagekit > with their GNOME dependencies to the xfce-desktop group seems wrong > to me. These are admin tools, they are already part of the > admin-tools group and will be installed on the current Xfce spin > anyway because we install admin-tools. IMHO 'yum install > ydxe-desktop' should only install an Xfce desktop, not more and not > less. > > Is everybody fine with me removing > * abrt-desktop > * gnome-packagekit > * system-config-date > * system-config-firewall > * system-config-services > * system-config-users > from xfce-desktop? I'd do the same as I did for LXDE [3]. Sure. > This still leaves us with the following non-Xfce packages: > * desktop-backgrounds-compat > * gdm > * openssh-askpass > * polkit-gnome > > desktop-backgrounds-compat is required and openssh-ask pass not > problematic. polkit-gnome is not problematic either because it has no > GNOME dependencies, but if this changes or they switch to GTK+ 3, we > can still move to lxpolkit. > > So the only questionable package is gdm. I think we need a display > manager but I'm no longer convinced it should be gdm. gdm now is in > GTK+ 3 and requires not only gnome-session but also > gnome-settings-manager and gnome-screensaver with all their deps such > as gnome-control-center. We'd end up with two screensavers but only > xscreensaver works in Xfce. > > LXDE is too buggy IMHO and I'm currently packaging and investigating > lightdm [4]. I'll let you know once it's read for testing and then we > can decide whether or not to switch. > > Questions? Thoughts? I have been wanting to switch away from gdm for a long time, but nothing ever pans out. ;( I hope lightdm ends up being good. Otherwise we either use gdm another release, or try and fix lxdm up enough to work for us. ;( kevin
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