Severe X breakage heads up

[Richi Plana]

On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 09:19 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 11/6/07, Richi Plana <myfedora at richip.dhs.org> wrote:
> > Why is that functionality being added to a desktop manager? What exactly
> > is the definition for a desktop manager these days? I've always found
> > the name "desktop manager" to be a bit misleading. In my mind, I've
> > always thought of it as just a user login system (determining the user
> > for a session). Are desktop managers supposed to handle more than that?
> 
> 
> rpm -qi gdm
> Gdm (the GNOME Display Manager)
> 
> gdm makes it possible for you to login to the system. Let's avoid
> trying to shoe-horn what that means into legacy concepts like
> "desktop."
> 
> There are absolutely real situations where a computer will have
> multi-lingual users. Wouldn't it be great if those  users could have
> their native keyboard layout at the login screen for login names and
> passwords.

"Shoe-horning gdm into a legacy concept" wasn't my intention. Just
making sure that features are in their rightful place to avoid
duplication of (and possibly conflicting) effort.

"gdm makes it possible for you to login to the system" is exactly what I
had in mind for gdm (and other "deskop managers", or "display manager"
in the case of gdm). If having the wrong keyboard type makes it
impossible to log in, then yes, I do agree that lacking that, by
definition, would mean a failure in the system. Me, I'm just trying to
understand the logic behind it (not saying there isn't any or it's
wrong).

Semantics is good. As a firm believer in Agile Modeling concepts, I
agree with the tenet "Your goal is to build a shared understanding, it
isn't to write detailed documentation."
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Richi Plana