Hello Fabio, On 15/08/2024 13:05, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
Il 15/08/2024 12:36, Roland Clobus ha scritto:When building the daily live image for Cinnamon based on sid, I noticed that since cinnamon-core 6.0.0 you are using a new greeter (slick-greeter) for entering username and password.It is in the 'Recommends' section, and will be the active greeter after installation (instead of lightdm-gtk-greeter).I just wanted to ask you to confirm whether this is an intended change.Hi, yes is an intended change as you can see in changelog [1] and the commit [2]
Thanks for confirming. I'll update our openQA tests accordingly.
I did mainly for Ubuntu where lightdm and lightdm-gtk-greeter are different from Debian and in particular lightdm-gtk-greeter have deps that add many packages with components of other DE not needed, from a fast test I did I thought there was a slight improvement in Debian too.Did you perhaps notice any problems that I hadn't noticed with slick-greeter?
If you want to avoid pulling in lightdm-gtk-greeter, and still want to give full freedom to the users (and stating your preferred choices), you could try the following:
In the Depends section: - lightdm | gdm3 | x-display-manager, + slick-greeter | lightdm | gdm3 | x-display-manager,Slick-greeter itself depends on lightdm, and since it is mentioned first, it will be used by default.
If you don't want/need to show your preference for lightdm or alternatively gdm3, you can even simplify the line to
- lightdm | gdm3 | x-display-manager, + slick-greeter | x-display-manager,With a quick test on a freshly bootstrapped Debian sid system (and with locally modified cinnamon-core packages) I've verified that the only difference (when only cinnamon-core is installed additionally) is the disappearance of lightdm-gtk-greeter.
So I don't see additionally packages, but it might be different for Ubuntu. With kind regards, Roland Clobus
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