Re: New module proposal: LightDM

[Luca Ferretti <luca ferret gmail com>]

Il giorno Fri, 13/05/2011 alle 21.17 +0200, Alexander Larsson ha
scritto:
> On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 14:59 +0200, Robert Ancell wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Personally I don't see why the greeter is all that important. Most
> system these days are single-user setups like laptops. 

I'm not sure I can agree with this starting point. If so we should also
remove the "Accounts" panel from system setting, or at least the ability
to manage other accounts.

However I agree with the idea of a "password only" request when you are
the unique user, but I feel this can resolved at greeter level,
something like

if (single_user) then {
  activate_user (username);
  prompt_password();
}