Do you have links to anything explaining about AccountsService?<div><br></div><div>Explaining what it is, why it's better than dealing with files directly, that sort of thing.</div><div><br></div><div>Dave<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Guido Berhoerster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gber@opensuse.org">gber@opensuse.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> * Yves-Alexis Perez <<a href="mailto:corsac@debian.org">corsac@debian.org</a>> [2011-08-18 07:51]:<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5">> On jeu., 2011-08-18 at 11:14 +1000, Robert Ancell wrote:<br> > > Currently LightDM supports both legacy password/preferences (pwd.h and<br> > > .dmrc) and AccountsService<br> > > (<a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/" target="_blank">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/</a>). AccountsService is a<br> > > relatively new D-Bus service that was started in January 2010 that<br> > > wraps up user information into a D-Bus service and abstracts away<br> > > account manipulation.<br> > ><br> > > I think AccountsService is a really great piece of software and I'd<br> > > like to see it widely adopted and LightDM have a hard dependency on<br> > > it. The question is: if you are a consumer or potential consumer of<br> > > LightDM is this an issue?<br> > ><br> > > Specifically:<br> > > GNOME - developed from GNOME, so not a blocker<br> > > KDE - ?<br> > > Oracle - ?<br> > > LXDE - ?<br> > > XFCE - ?<br> > > Elementary - ?<br> > > Other - ?<br> ><br> > Keeping the whole quote and adding Xfce on CC:, I don't think they read<br> > the lightdm list.<br> ><br> > I don't know much about accountservice. I'm not completely against some<br> > way to share the burdain and prevent code duplication, but I kind of<br> > wonder if it's not over-engineering something. dmrc seems to work fine<br> > and could have been a standard (at least an unofficial one) simple<br> > enough to be tuned with a text editor, so support for various desktops<br> > is already done.<br> ><br> > Now I'm not exactly sure how desktops are supposed to manage stuff in<br> > accountservices maybe it simple enough, but in Xfce cases at least there<br> > are some manpower issues meaning that support might lag a bit (or not be<br> > done at all). Not sure how bad it is and if there are other way to tune<br> > account informations.<br> <br> </div></div>Please keep it optional, dmrc files can be easily manipulated<br> without a UI if needed and currently AccountsService only seems<br> to be supported by GNOME on Linux while it's not clear if it will<br> be adopted by other DE's.<br> <br> --<br> <font color="#888888">Guido Berhoerster<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="h5">_______________________________________________<br> LightDM mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:LightDM@lists.freedesktop.org">LightDM@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/lightdm" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/lightdm</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>