[Oneiric-Topic] LightDM for display management

[Robert Ancell]

On 04/11/2011 01:39 PM, James Westby wrote:
> 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
>
That is the intention.  If we use a GTK based greeter (as I would
expect) there would be localization via the normal methods. 
Screenreader support is also a requirement.