Call for testing: LightDM

[Bryce Harrington]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 08:45:38AM +0100, Matthew East wrote:
> On 8 June 2011 02:58, Bryce Harrington <bryce at canonical.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 11:03:12AM +0100, Matthew East wrote:
> >> I'm taking this opportunity to post a link to this comment on the
> >> proposed switch to lightDM from Matthew Garrett, in case people
> >> reading here haven't seen it, it seems relevant to this discussion and
> >> I haven't seen it mentioned before.
> >>
> >> http://mjg59.livejournal.com/136274.html
> >
> > tl;dr version: "Every wart is earned in the process of fixing a bug;
> > those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it, etc."  Fairly bog
> > standard rant against doing something new.
> 
> Actually, to be fair, I don't think that it is at that kind of level.
> It's not just a criticism of the concept of using something
> lightweight, the post looks specifically at differences between the
> competing software, features and design policies.

Specifically?

Boiling Matt's post down this is what I'm reading:

  1. NIH
  2. It doesn't start a GNOME session
  3. Doesn't have arbitrary shiny stuff like slidy effects
  4. Auto-update when users are created or deleted
  5. Accessibility functionality UI
  6. Gratuitously drawing a clock
  7. Handle power policy via gnome-power-manager rather than via upower

#1 yeah but whatever.  #2 seems like a feature unless proven otherwise.
#3 who cares.  #4 ok, fair point, seems minor though.  #5 important, but
I think already under development.  #6 yeah right.  #7 huh?

Anyway, I greatly respect mjg59 but find this particular post not very
constructive.

Bryce