On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 08:57:07PM +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Patrice Dumas <pertusus <at> free.fr> writes:
> device since X is all about hiding the hardware. I am currently
> discussing that with the xdm upstream maintainer, did you contact the
> kde upstream for the patch inclusion?
Yes:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147790
The KDM maintainer rejected it. :-( For pretty unconvincing reasons at that: he
doesn't agree with the design (but it's the one which is advocated by the
ConsoleKit developers and which would allow implementing true fast user
switching in KDM later) and he doesn't want GPL (as opposed to X11-licensed)
code in the KDM backend (which makes no sense because the frontend is already
GPL and because merges back to XDM aren't going to happen anyway, because as
you said, the code has diverged a lot). (Part of the code is GPL because it's
derived from the GDM implementation.)
I think he is right on one point, libck-connector should be used instead
of picking the gdm code, it is under the MIT, and it is better to use a
lib to reuse code instead of cut and paste. gdm should certainly also
use libck-connector.
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Pat