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(a)verbum.org> 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