<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 4:20 PM, j. apple muncy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:j.apple.muncy@gmail.com" target="_blank">j.apple.muncy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Or how to avoid the whirlwind. <br><br>Greetings everyone. <br><br>I observe the coding of lighdm is well under way and I'm thinking the pressure to meet the releases of 11.11 is probably going to build without bounds. <br>
<br>Is there time now to consider the inclusion of some of the more offbeat use cases?<br>1: Headless(no monitor, keyboard, or monitor)<br>2: True headless(no video card) but Xvfb.<br>3: No X but only XDMCP.<br></blockquote>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">4: No Dbus.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>When would "no dbus" be a real use case?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
5: No X until after login.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If you've already logged in, you don't need a login prompt for anything. What would LightDM (or GDM/KDM/XDM) gain a user over simply typing startx themselves? They're clearly the sort of user that doesn't like doing things the easy way, maybe this software simply isn't for them.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm thinking they could actually help point out some ways to modularise and simplify.<br>People are going to come out of the woodwork asking for these cases to work and at minimal overhead.<br>
<br><br><a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/lightdm" target="_blank">https://blueprints.launchpad.net/lightdm</a><br><br>is empty and I took me some time to find:<br> <br><a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LightDM/Design" target="_blank">http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LightDM/?Design</a><br>
<br><br></blockquote><div>I'm not trying to argue, just trying to understand these use cases. </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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