[LightDM] LightDM and Ubuntu

[Robert Ancell]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 at 23:18 Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult <
enrico.weigelt at gr13.net> wrote:

> On 26.06.2017 07:57, Robert Ancell wrote:
> > As you might be aware the Ubuntu desktop has decided to switch to using
> > GNOME and this means we will be using GDM instead of LightDM [1].
>
> Just curious (haven't used gnome for aeons): does only gnome run w/ its
> own DM ? Why so ?
>

GDM has been around longer than LightDM, so GNOME has just never switched
away from it. GDM evolved from XDM to be GNOME specific and then was
rewritten (all before LightDM). The hope was GNOME would use LightDM, but
this has not (yet?) occurred.


> > I will continue to do release management for LightDM and review and
> > merge branches as I can. If anyone else is capable and interested in
> > helping out with these jobs I'd love to hear from you - I don't want to
> > be a blocker on development just because my focus is elsewhere.
>
> Is there still much to develop here ? I'm running v1.10.6 here, and
> never missed anything.
>

At the moment there are no major features missing. So I don't expect a
significant amount of work needed in the near future.

There's always bug fixes, and dependency changes and new features that may
come up in the future. I wanted to make clear these are all good things and
I don't want anyone to have to wait for me for these to be done.

--Robert
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