25 May
2016
25 May
'16
13:10
http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981372 http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981372#c9 --- Comment #9 from Dominique Leuenberger--- (In reply to Egbert Eich from comment #8) > Not only that. Each user may have its own preference of sessions. > I use xfce for instance, others use Gnome or Plasma. You cannot give > everyone her or his pet DM, however, letting people select which session to > use should be possible. > Then of course there are the 'power users' - like Werner: these people have > their carefull hand crafted session which has evolved over years. Most DMs (incl. GDM) store what session type a user last started and default back to the same - the info is stored inside the users home directory. So this type of user does not need a .xsession file to get going > So, my idea was, to have a selection, which gives both the Werners of this > world the power to do 'their thing' and at the same time let the > 'inexperienced user' pick what is the sysadmin's choice (ie what has been > specified in /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager') - which will hopefully then be > supported by this sysadmin. This is the main part I understood - but that by itself does not mean we have to install it by default on every users machine at home... such a sysadmin should well be able to add this package on his own (I can see that for SLE this might be more appealing - so there might be a viable difference in recommending xdm-xsession on SLE, not doing so on openSUSE) > Currently it is a 'Supplements' to xdm. You could make it conflict with gdm, > however in this case one would not install it without YaST or zypper > complaining heavily. I agree: when there is only one session (ie Gnome) is > installed one should probably not offer any selection menu at all - unless > of course you have a power-Werner ;) among your users. > However, as soon as you have an administrated multi user system with the > choice among Gnome and Xfce for instance, having an entry with the > 'sysadmin's recommendation' is not all that bad. We really don't want to conflict - then Bjorn can as well just keep the patch in, as in no way would gdm show the xsession type. >From my PoV, I'd suggest: * do only supplement xdm-xsession on xdm on SLE - where the chance of multi-user systems is much highere * on openSUSE, the package is provided in the repos so that users such as Werner can fulfill their need by installing it Thoughts? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.