Hey, On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 15:40, Owen Taylor wrote: > On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 00:08, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > > 't remember the whole set of issues but I think it was basically so > > that a) switchdesk would appear to do something (it only works if you > > are using the "Default" gdm session which runs ~/.Xclients, so if you'd > > chosen a session in gdm switchdesk would seem busted) and b) so that if > > someone had run switchdesk historically they wouldn't get reverted to > > the default desktop on upgrade. > > > > Part of the issue is that switchdesk works with startx and kdm, but I > > don't think we should care about that anymore honestly. kdm could have > > similar functionality, and in the startx case someone is using command > > line already and can edit .Xclients. > > Nothing elaborate about the rational: > > - At that time we supported xdm, kdm, gdm, and startx > - So we needed something like switchdesk > - The combination of switchdesk and gdm choosing the session doesn't > work correctly. So, the conclusion I draw from that is that we should just get rid of switchdesk. It'd be great if someone could log a bug to do that and another bug to get rid of the switchdesk specific code from GDM. (Btw, if you do rpm --erase switchdesk, you should get the "old" GDM functionality for switching desktops) Cheers, Mark.
