Call for testing: LightDM

[Matthew East]

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.

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Matthew East
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