The greeter can be whatever you want, yes. So you could port the gdm greeter to LightDM, at which point you're no lighter than gdm and you're running a less tested codebase. So what's the benefit? Has gdm shown any sign of instability or poor maintenance? What problem is actually being solved?
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Re: Reusing desktop policies
Date: 2011-05-13 03:43 pm (UTC)