El 13/05/2011 14:59, "Robert Ancell" <
robert ancell gmail com> escribió:
> I'm proposing LightDM [1] as a replacement for GDM. I started the
> proposal for this in GNOME 3.0 [2] but due to the young age of the
> project I thought it better to wait until 3.2 before making a full
> proposal. This is it. I apologise this has been done after the
> proposal period.
>
> Why replace GDM?
>
> - LightDM is a cross-platform solution. Ubuntu is planning to switch
> to it this cycle, and other distributions have expressed interest in
> the project. By sharing this piece of infrastructure GNOME can spend
> more time working on important GNOME components. LightDM is aligned
> with
freedesktop.org.
>
> - I am confident that the LightDM architecture is simpler than GDM.
> Some indicators of this:
> - Smaller code size
> - Well defined interface between greeter and session
> - Less dependencies
> - Less internal interfaces
> Architecture can be a personal opinion, and I encourage those with
> programming experience to look at the code and decide for themselves.
> Note that LightDM is not lighter in features, but in architecture.
>
> - By having a well defined interface between the greeter and daemon,
> it is significantly easier to develop a greeter without knowledge of
> how display management works. This is useful as the skillset and
> motivations of these two sets of developers are different.
>
> - LightDM is a platform for future work and is investigating the use
> of new technologies like Wayland.
>
> The details:
> Purpose: Cross-desktop display manager
> Target: desktop
> Dependencies: libglib, libpam, libxdmcp, libxcb, libxklavier,
> gobject-introspection, libgtk+
> Resource Usage: Launchpad for source control and bug tracking [1],
> tarballs in public ftp [3] (in process of moving to
freedesktop.org)
> Adoption: Accepted for use in Ubuntu 11.10, interest from other distributions
> GNOME-ness: Display manager is cross-desktop, example GTK+ greeter is
> fully GNOME compliant. I would recommend this module is maintained in
> the GNOME servers to get all the build and translation support.
> 3.0 readiness: GTK greeter currently using GTK2, but all other code
> uses latest GNOME standards.
> License: GPL3
>
> [1]
https://launchpad.net/lightdm> [2]
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2010-October/msg00226.html
> [3]
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