[LightDM] Proposal: Drop ConsoleKit support from lightdm 1.14

[Robert Ancell]

I've heard no opposition so I've now removed ConsoleKit support from
LightDM trunk. The next release (1.13.1) will contain this change.

On 1 October 2014 10:14, Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've made a branch [1] so we can test LightDM without ConsoleKit.
>
> In doing this branch the most important issue this removal has shown is
> the shutdown and restart functionality provided to greeters doesn't work if
> you don't have logind installed. Open to ideas on what alternatives should
> be used for systems that have neither ConsoleKit or logind (if they exist).
> I guess the best option is to have the daemon provide methods for this to
> the greeter.
>
> --Robert
>
> [1] lp:~robert-ancell/lightdm/no-console-kit
>
> On 1 October 2014 08:41, Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I previously [1] raised the idea of dropping support for ConsoleKit from
>> LightDM and would like to revisit this again. ConsoleKit is as far as I
>> know a dead project and it seems likely that most distributions have
>> switched to using logind (either from systemd or just using the interface).
>> Does anyone have any opposition to dropping ConsoleKit support from LightDM
>> 1.14?
>>
>> What this means:
>> - LightDM will not register sessions with ConsoleKit even if it is there
>> - LightDM will register sessions with logind if it is present (i.e. not a
>> hard dependency, though you may have degraded functionality).
>>
>> Note that any systems using ConsoleKit can continue to use LightDM 1.10
>> which will be supported until April 2019.
>>
>> --Robert
>>
>> [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/2013-May/000377.html
>>
>
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