Re: [gdm-list] [ConsoleKit] Future of GDM & ConsoleKit

[Bob Doolittle <Bob Doolittle oracle com>]

On 05/19/11 08:53 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Wed, 18.05.11 20:58, Brian Cameron (brian cameron oracle com) wrote
> > When Simon Zheng, Halton Huo, and myself designed these interfaces, the
> > intent was that they could be extended to support device management.  I
> > am sure that the "Devices" line in the design for
> > /etc/ConsoleKit/seat.d is too primitive and needs work.  But it seems a
> > starting point to discuss.
> The new scheme we have come up with in systemd does not use any such
> configuration. In the best case seat configuration is completely
> automatic and seats are dynamically created simply by plugging the right
> hardware in.
>
> Configuration is then only necessary if you use a combination of hw that
> cannot be recognized automatically.
>
> Also, all of this is solved inside udev, which simply puts the right
> tags on the devices popping up.
>
> All of this is very different from the old approaches. i.e. there's very
> little actual infrastructure which binds seats together. Primarily seats
> simply appear because properly tagged hardware devices show up in the
> system.

One issue with this is for network displays such as some Thin Clients.
We need the ability to support network-attached display devices. Is this being taken into account?

-Bob