Am Mittwoch, den 18.02.2009, 20:20 -0500 schrieb Colin Walters:
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Kevin Kofler
<kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> wrote:
>
> 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+).
In fact GTK+ is the _only_ thing they share. You call this a lot?
What
exactly about GDM is not suitable? That's the question they should be
able to answer.
Ok, here we go:
1. The gnome-session requirement: Both Xfce and LXDE already have
their session managers (xfce4-session and lxsession-lite).
2. The gnome-settings-daemon requirement: Both Xfce and LXDE have
their settings-daemons (xfconfd and lxsettings).
3. The GConf requirement: Xfce already has xfconf, lxde doesn't
need anything like that.
4. The fact that gdm requires at least a 800x600 screen (bz #
473453)
5. The fact that gdm is messing up the numer of desktops for nearly
all window managers except metacity.
-- Colin, skeptical of "extremely faster" and were the LXDE
home page
a wiki, would want to add [Citation needed]
http://www.slideshare.net/mariobehling/lxde-presentation-at-fosdem-2009
see slide 5 and if you still don't believe it, try yourself. ;)
Regards,
Christoph