Re: add a special Provides: to all login manager packages

[Christoph Wickert <christoph wickert googlemail com>]

Am Mittwoch, den 18.02.2009, 20:20 -0500 schrieb Colin Walters:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin kofler chello at> wrote:
> >
> > 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+).

In fact GTK+ is the _only_ thing they share. You call this a lot?

>   What
> exactly about GDM is not suitable?  That's the question they should be
> able to answer.

Ok, here we go:
     1. The gnome-session requirement: Both Xfce and LXDE already have
        their session managers (xfce4-session and lxsession-lite).
     2. The gnome-settings-daemon requirement: Both Xfce and LXDE have
        their settings-daemons (xfconfd and lxsettings).
     3. The GConf requirement: Xfce already has xfconf, lxde doesn't
        need anything like that.
     4. The fact that gdm requires at least a 800x600 screen (bz #
        473453)
     5. The fact that gdm is messing up the numer of desktops for nearly
        all window managers except metacity.

> -- Colin, skeptical of "extremely faster" and were the LXDE home page
> a wiki, would want to add [Citation needed]

http://www.slideshare.net/mariobehling/lxde-presentation-at-fosdem-2009
see slide 5 and if you still don't believe it, try yourself. ;)

Regards,
Christoph