support old GDM themes

[Martin-Éric Racine]

Binary package hint: lxdm

Mostly a wishlist item for upstream.

Seeing how GDM has become a completely GNOME-specific item and how it no longer supports the gdm-greeter themes, one desirable feature for LXDM would be to support themes created for GDM up to version 2.20. This would imply supporting the XML format for the theme layout description and SVG images for the background, with SVG or PNG icons for the menu descriptors.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Feb 4 01:13:49 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: lxdm 0.2.0~svn2307-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fi_FI:fi:en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-10.14+bug396286v2-generic
SourcePackage: lxdm
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-10-generic i586

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

Not sure it should be a priority, it's not the goal of LXDM to add the GDM backward compatibility.

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

Understood. It's just that adopting the old theme engine's XML files would instantly grant LXDM access to hundreds of existing themes, which would be a very thing at a time when GDM has been rewritten, rendering existing themes completely useless.

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

Yes, but it'll certainly add some weight to it :)

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

Forwarded upstream.