Hello, The issue of how best to provide support for the freedesktop.org display managers (kdm and gdm at the moment) has been discussed on debian-devel [1] and in bug report #330064 [2]. Nothing approaching consensus was reached. I outlined a number of issues that would have to be resolved before a system of .desktop file auto-generation, as envisioned by Bernhard R. Link, would be satisfactory, and no one volunteered to implement such a system. Furthermore, it is my personal opinion (obviously not shared by everyone) that such a system would provide little benefit. Anyone who did wish to undertake such a task would be well advised to ask for help from the menu-xdg and menu maintainers, Chris Cheney and Bill Allombert, respectively.
This leaves maintainers with three choices: 1) Wait for someone to step forward and implement such a system, and solve the problems it would raise. 2) Step forward themselves to implement such a system. 3) Add support to their own package, by creating a .desktop file and shipping it in /usr/share/xsessions, as my original bug report suggested, if they feel that their users would benefit. Obviously, this is my personal recommendation. I hope that this clarifies the situation, and will allow maintainers to make informed judgments on how to proceed. Cheers, Christopher Martin [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/09/msg01188.html and thereafter [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=330064 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
