On September 25, 2005 12:59, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > Additionally, I must have missed the announce on debian-devel for > your bug mass-filing. The window managers with a large number of users (judging from popcon.d.o) already provide such a file or have long-standing wishlist bugs requesting such a file, with few exceptions. Thus this minor round of wishlist bug filings did not represent a request to implement a radical, disruptive, novel, or release-affecting idea (any of which would certainly have merited d-devel attention) but rather a few wishlist filings for window managers whose maintainers were apparently not aware of the increasingly common practice of providing freedesktop.org display manager (i.e. gdm/kdm) support, perhaps due to having fewer users, which probably meant that no one had bothered to ask yet. > * Christopher Martin <christopher.martin@utoronto.ca> [050925 18:03]: > > To make wm2 a selectable option in gdm and kdm (though for the moment > > kdm provides its own file), wm2 should ship > > /usr/share/xsessions/wm2.desktop. These .desktop files take 2 minutes > > to create. Examples of the contents of such files can be found in the > > blackbox, afterstep, and wmaker packages. > > I'd rather suggest you ask the gdm and kdm people to support the Debian > menu and let update-menus generate such .desktop files automatically. > There are already two things to register as window manager, adding a > third looks very ugly... If the Debian menu plans to enter the business of providing freedesktop.org window manager session files for display managers, then I must have missed the announcement. Certainly nothing was hinted at in the post-Sarge Debian menu future-plans message. kdm provides a number of these session files itself at the moment, covering most of the window managers in Debian, fortunately, but upstream has mused about removing them, and with good reason, since it is hardly the job of a display manager to carry - and be obliged to maintain - a catalogue of window managers. Should these files ever be dropped from the package, kdm users would no doubt complain about their favourite window managers no longer being conveniently listed (and when outdated information in kdm's catalogue of .desktop files resulted in just that occurring recently, they did complain). To forestall such an eventuality, I decided to prompt the remaining window managers to join their more popular cousins in providing kdm/gdm support. If you don't want to bother providing such support in wm2, then don't, but given the trivial effort of adding such support, and the virtually nil effort required to maintain it, I fail to see what is so terribly ugly or difficult about the situation. If the Debian menu plans to automate this for you at some point in the future, great. Until then... Cheers, Christopher Martin
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