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Re: Request for pkg-dm



Listmasters: please hold this request for now - we would like a quick 
discussion about wether we need this list first. 
Others: Please remove listmasters from your replies.

On Monday 04 June 2007, Mike Massonnet wrote:
> So according the two bugs #423279 and #425770 I think it is a good
> idea to get the maintainers of display/login managers in touch.

A informal discussion about this topic seems very interesting - and also 
somehow needed.

I just - at the current time - disagree with the approach to ask for a 
mailinglist until we have found out that it is what we need.  
A alternative approach could be to have it as a part of the debian desktop 
project that already covers some of the interaction with displaymanagers.


> Now the solution would be to split the templates inside a common
> package which could be named "dm".  This package could also fix the
> problem with the init.d scripts.

I don't know yet if it is the correct technical approach to use a seperate 
package. it might be though.

A couple of details I could think of:

A unified /etc/rcX.d/SXXdisplay-manager symlink managed to point to the right 
chosen one. Either by update-alternatives - or simply by a debconf 
reconfigure template.

Seperate initscripts is needed for the different display managers. A unified 
initscript won't work.

Some way to figure out in the init script if a display manager is already 
running and be able to bail out in the init script if some thing is already 
running. (a shared lockfile maybe)

A way to register installed display managers.

A way to trigger the choice of display manager after the installation of a 
displaymanager.

A easy migration path for users - even users that have costumized 
their /etc/init.d/?dm scripts.

And last, but not least, we need a good way to do this work.

/Sune
 - member of pkg-kde - but this isn't (yet) the official team position. We 
haven't discussed it much yet.
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