OoO En cette fin de nuit blanche du jeudi 23 février 2012, vers 06:47,
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> disait :
>> We should not still be using this software.
> Er, given that gdm3 works fine for many people, that seems excessive.
> Moreover, the choice of default display manager seems unrelated to its
> ability to support obscure tweaks -- indeed, it's very common for
> default packages to be those that are nicer for "average" users, not
> those that are the most customizable. You have the choice of easily
> installing other display managers that meet your criteria, so what's
> the big deal?
Moreover, other display manager may not work correctly because gdm3 is
the only display manager supporting all modern stuff. For example, we
could switch to something like "slim" but slim does not play nice with
ConsoleKit which means that a user logged with slim won't be considered
as a local user and therefore won't have rights for power management,
network configuration and things like that. See:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=601003
The main problem is things are now more complex than 10 years ago and
alternatives are unable to cope with all the new things necessary to
make a desktop work correctly. We have to rely on parts of the GNOME
desktop. Unfortunately, those parts are dependant on other parts and are
not as hackable and documented as we are used to.
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