Putting something in <a href="http://git.freedesktop.org">git.freedesktop.org</a> does not automatically make it a standard. I did not remember that poeple had consensus on this one. Of course, this is a good thing, but this caused portability issues as some other systems may not adopt this. Two good examples are udisks and PolicyKit which should be portable but finally became Linux-specific. OpenSolaris and others have different security models for which Polkit is not suitable. UDisks is too Linux-centric and is built on top of udev and there are no other systems plan to support it. Unless this gets wide adoption, adding a hard dependence to this is not a good idea. It can be an optional feature, but at least for LXDE, I do not think that we should rely on this. Something like PolicyKit brings many problems already. I'd like to call this Dbus hell or *Kit hell. We have more and more dbus *Kit. IMO we're now moving away from KISS principle and beauty of UNIX. <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Robert Ancell <<a href="mailto:robert.ancell@gmail.com">robert.ancell@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi all, Currently LightDM supports both legacy password/preferences (pwd.h and .dmrc) and AccountsService (<a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/" target="_blank">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/</a>). AccountsService is a relatively new D-Bus service that was started in January 2010 that wraps up user information into a D-Bus service and abstracts away account manipulation. I think AccountsService is a really great piece of software and I'd like to see it widely adopted and LightDM have a hard dependency on it. The question is: if you are a consumer or potential consumer of LightDM is this an issue? Specifically: GNOME - developed from GNOME, so not a blocker KDE - ? Oracle - ? LXDE - ? XFCE - ? Elementary - ? Other - ? Thanks, --Robert _______________________________________________ LightDM mailing list <a href="mailto:LightDM@lists.freedesktop.org">LightDM@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/lightdm" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/lightdm</a> </blockquote></div>