Call for testing: LightDM

[Matthew East]

On 8 June 2011 09:09, Bryce Harrington <bryce at canonical.com> wrote:
> 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

Well, your second post is a bit more like a rebuttal of the blog post
than your first one was, and you've more or less stated the points
that are made (except for point 6, which isn't really made), although
I don't think you've really taken much time rebutting the reasoning
behind points 2 and 7 (which seem to be the main focus of the post).

For my part, I don't have the technical knowledge to even have an
opinion on the issues raised, and I certainly can't participate in the
discussion in any meaningful way. I have 100% faith in the decision
makers and implementers in this team to get this right. As I mentioned
originally, I just wanted to bring the post to the attention of the
right people, as I hadn't seen it mentioned.

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Matthew East
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