you missed one of the most important points the extension of the freedesktop.org menu standard. Am Mi, den 01.09.2004 um 10:10 Uhr -0500 schrieb Rex Dieter: > Rudolf Kastl wrote: > > >>So what *is* the point? > > > I want to be able to package alternative displaymanagers in a way it can > > work "out of the box" the current way requires the user to hack some > > config files > > I don't consider editing /etc/sysconfig/desktop a hack, but that's just me. > > > and since SWITCHDESK needs a replacement anyways and the > > freedesktop.org standard seems to be yet missing the DISPLAYMANAGER part > > its a pretty sucky solution imho. > > I will say here that it seems you're tackling several different > problems/issues here (though your intention sounds to unify the setup > for these): > 1. What DISPLAYMANAGER (ie, login manger) to use by default. > 2. What DESKTOP to use by default > 3. Installing/using *new* DISPLAYMANGERs > 4. Installing *new* DESKTOPs complete with full support from > a. switchdesk. > b. all/existing (standard-compliant) DISPLAYMANAGERs > > Now, if you want more than what I mentioned here, please elaborate. > > As I've said (and won't again), I think (1),(2),(3) are handled nicely > already via /etc/sysconfig/desktop > > For (4a), I agree switchdesk could use improvement: > Offhand, it appeared to me at first as though dropping a new > Xclients.foodm into > /usr/share/switchdesk > would be enough to make it work, but alas, there's a bunch of stuff > hard-coded into > /usr/bin/switchdesk-helper > > For (4b), DISPLAYMANGER support for new desktops, I agree that needs > standardization. At least in the case of gdm and kdm, they seem quasi > standardized, but don't look in the same place for options > (/usr/share/xsessions for gdm, and /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions for > kdm). It would appear gdm is doing the better thing here. IMO, kdm (or > any DISPLAYMANAGER) should follow suit and use /usr/share/xsessions (or > some other agreed-upon, shared location). > > -- Rex > >
