[Oneiric-Topic] LightDM for display management

[James Westby]

On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:02:35 +1000, Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at canonical.com> wrote:
> Last cycle I proposed using LightDM to replace GDM [1].  It was deferred
> due to the Unity work, so time to repropose!
> 
> The main reasons for switching are:
> - Simpler code to maintain (GDM is a huge ~50,000 line C program and we
> carry 36 patches.  LightDM is nearer 10,000 lines of C).
> - More flexible greeter development - greeters are as easy as X
> applications to write, which means we can have an Ubuntu specific
> greeter that without branching the rest of the code

I assume that the greeters can be written to be accessible via
screenreaders etc, and that they can be localised etc as well?

Thanks,

James