[LightDM] Hard dependency on AccountsService

[David Edmundson]

Do you have links to anything explaining about AccountsService?

Explaining what it is, why it's better than dealing with files directly,
that sort of thing.

Dave

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Guido Berhoerster <gber at opensuse.org>wrote:

> * Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> [2011-08-18 07:51]:
> > On jeu., 2011-08-18 at 11:14 +1000, Robert Ancell wrote:
> > > Currently LightDM supports both legacy password/preferences (pwd.h and
> > > .dmrc) and AccountsService
> > > (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/).  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 - ?
> >
> > Keeping the whole quote and adding Xfce on CC:, I don't think they read
> > the lightdm list.
> >
> > I don't know much about accountservice. I'm not completely against some
> > way to share the burdain and prevent code duplication, but I kind of
> > wonder if it's not over-engineering something. dmrc seems to work fine
> > and could have been a standard (at least an unofficial one) simple
> > enough to be tuned with a text editor, so support for various desktops
> > is already done.
> >
> > Now I'm not exactly sure how desktops are supposed to manage stuff in
> > accountservices maybe it simple enough, but in Xfce cases at least there
> > are some manpower issues meaning that support might lag a bit (or not be
> > done at all). Not sure how bad it is and if there are other way to tune
> > account informations.
>
> Please keep it optional, dmrc files can be easily manipulated
> without a UI if needed and currently AccountsService only seems
> to be supported by GNOME on Linux while it's not clear if it will
> be adopted by other DE's.
>
> --
> Guido Berhoerster
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