On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 16:45:15 +0200, Rudolf Kastl <che666@xxxxxx> wrote: > The switchdesk guis need a rewrite. so if theres just a bit sanity there > could be change in the way DMs are handled too and you could even reuse > the same gui. First of all.. switchdesk i think is aimed primarily at being a tool for individual users to set their prefered desktop environment inside a user's home directory. Changing which DM is used is system-wide and would need administration privs to work. Personally I do not think its a good idea to add this feature to the switchdesk interface. You are thinking one user, one system. I think its very important when thinking about gui's to think multi-user, and make sure there is a distinction between what non-admin users see in terms of tools and what admin users see as tools, becuase I certaintly don't want end-user seeing or interacting with the gui for DM selection, i want to lock that down so only users with admin privs see that. But yeah the script logic controlling how prefdm works is mighty... crusty. But its just script logic. I'm sure if you wanted to try your hand at rebuilding the /etc/X11/prefdm script to make it easier to allow for additional DM's that would not be unwelcomed coding work. Once you have an example script replacement or patch to the current prefdm submitted to bugzilla, there might be more to talk about in terms of a gui. My guess is the lack of more generalized prefdm logic is partly if not mostly manpower/priority constraints related. So volunteering to rebuild the prefdm script and submit it for review might move this discussion forward. -jef
