Comment 3 for bug 1069494
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| John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (glaubitz) wrote | #3 |
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Well, I don't think the GNOME people are going to change policy. They're the ones who came up with AccountsService, so they're certainly not going to change it back to a state which allows you to use the old dmrc mechanism. So I didn't even bother mentioning gdm (they don't even care that users complain you cannot set the login language anymore, the bug report just remains open).
lightdm is the only universal display manager we have (besides good old gdm 2.20), so I put all my hopes into it. I wrote a few small patches to fix some minor issues with lightdm and I actually tried implementing this feature to choose between dmrc and AccountsService, but the lightdm code is quite messy in that regard. There are, for example, two identical functions to read from dmrcs: dmrc_read and read_dmrc, one is part of liblightdm, one is part of lightdm. lightdm-gtk-greeter uses the library implementation of it.
It's really confusing.
Adrian