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[Christian Dywan]

Am Fri, 21 May 2010 09:06:53 -0400
schrieb Matthias Clasen <matthias.clasen at gmail.com>:

> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Christian Dywan
> <christian at lanedo.com> wrote:
> > Am Wed, 19 May 2010 22:44:02 -0400
> > schrieb Havoc Pennington <hp at pobox.com>:
> >
> 
> >
> > For what I want, most users outside of GNOME do not run gdm. They
> > use xdm, lxdm or slim. KDE users presumably run kdm.
> >
> > And not few people simply run startx(fce) because they have
> > single-user machines at home.
> >
> > Not to forget ssh.
> >
> > Remember, this is freedesktop.org, not gnome-devel-list :-)
> 
> Supporting 50 different ways to start a session is not an good use of
> anybody's time.

Well, blame gdm for being too specific to its target platform. I recall
it became worse, not better lately. In an ideal world all GLib-based
tools would run on all GTK+-based environments. When I was young I
hoped for that, but then I met people who didn't care about ideals.

-- 
ciao,
    Christian