request for enhancement: gdmsetup

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Anthony Ewell wrote:

>     As to the question as to what to include and not to include,
> I presumed that you would only include the one that added
> functionality to the settings panel, such as the screen saver
> that you mentioned.  In other words, you would include
> "the good ones".
> 
>     In my humble opinion, gdmsetup is one of these.  This
> is why I ask that you, now that I know you are one of
> the developers, to look at it.  It should only
> take you a minute or so to either love it or hate it.

You're still completely missing the point.  GDM is just a choice among
many: GDM, KDM, slim, entrance, etc.  Xfce does not have its own display
manager.  Instead of 'forcing' a choice, we simply choose none.  If we
*were* going to choose one, I imagine it would be slim, as it's
desktop-neutral (while GDM has a lot of GNOME dependencies).

Xscreensaver, by contrast, is (or, at least, was, at the time it was
added) the de-facto screensaver for X11.  It's also desktop-neutral: it
doesn't require any toolkit or framework aside from libX11 (and Gtk for
the config app, though that's nothing more than Xfce itself depends on).
 Hence our inclusion of a button to launch its configuration app.

So, again, if you want a button for gdmsetup, ask your distro packager.

	-brian

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