On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > >> On 2009-02-18 at 17:14:12 -0500, Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> The other thing to we should do is to strongly discourage people from >>> adding more of them to Fedora. There's not a really good reason for >>> anything other than gdm and kdm to be included and supported. >> >> I'm not sure I buy this argument. Who gets to say what use cases are >> interesting to the Fedora Community? What if the next great window >> manager isn't GNOME or KDE? > > While I don't think GDM and KDM are going to cut it for everyone (KDM drags > in a lot of KDE, GDM a lot of GNOME, neither is a good solution for XFCE, > LXDE etc.), so I do think we should support more DMs, currently the only > DMs which actually *work* are those two. I don't think it's as obvious as that; both XFCE and LXDE share a lot of the same infrastructure that's used for gdm (primarily GTK+). What exactly about GDM is not suitable? That's the question they should be able to answer. -- Colin, skeptical of "extremely faster" and were the LXDE home page a wiki, would want to add [Citation needed] -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
