[LightDM] Is it time to re-factor yet :^)

[David Edmundson]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 4:20 PM, j. apple muncy <j.apple.muncy at gmail.com>wrote:

> Or how to avoid the whirlwind.
>
> Greetings everyone.
>
> 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.
>
> Is there time now to consider the inclusion of some of the more offbeat use
> cases?
> 1: Headless(no monitor, keyboard, or monitor)
> 2: True headless(no video card) but Xvfb.
> 3: No X but only XDMCP.
>


> 4: No Dbus.
>

When would "no dbus" be a real use case?


> 5: No X until after login.
>

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.


> I'm thinking they could actually help point out some ways to modularise and
> simplify.
> People are going to come out of the woodwork asking for these cases to work
> and at minimal overhead.
>
>
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/lightdm
>
> is empty and I took me some time to find:
>
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LightDM/?Design<http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LightDM/Design>
>
>
> I'm not trying to argue, just trying to understand these use cases.


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