On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> wrote:
Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On 2009-02-18 at 17:14:12 -0500, Colin Walters <walters(a)verbum.org> wrote:
>> The other thing to we should do is to strongly discourage people from
>> adding more of them to Fedora. There's not a really good reason for
>> anything other than gdm and kdm to be included and supported.
>
> I'm not sure I buy this argument. Who gets to say what use cases are
> interesting to the Fedora Community? What if the next great window
> manager isn't GNOME or KDE?
While I don't think GDM and KDM are going to cut it for everyone (KDM drags
in a lot of KDE, GDM a lot of GNOME, neither is a good solution for XFCE,
LXDE etc.), so I do think we should support more DMs, currently the only
DMs which actually *work* are those two.
I don't think it's as obvious as that; both XFCE and LXDE share a lot
of the same infrastructure that's used for gdm (primarily GTK+). What
exactly about GDM is not suitable? That's the question they should be
able to answer.
-- Colin, skeptical of "extremely faster" and were the LXDE home page
a wiki, would want to add [Citation needed]