Am Donnerstag, den 19.02.2009, 02:05 +0100 schrieb Kevin Kofler: > 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. > > The serious issue with all the other DMs in Fedora is that they do not > support ConsoleKit. Thus, permissions to hardware devices are not given out > and things just don't work. What is not working? Are there any DM related bugs in bz? The only one I know is related to gdm, one of the DMs you call working. > XDM, SLIM etc. need to be patched to support > ConsoleKit if we want to support them properly. What is the use if nether xfce4-session nor lxsession-lite support ConsoleKit? Regards, Christoph -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
