[arch-general] LightDM GTK+ Greeter 2.0.0

[Armin K.]

On 02/25/2015 04:33 PM, Pablo Lezaeta Reyes wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Version 2.0.0 of the LightDM GTK greeter was released about week ago.
>> This release drops GTK2 support.
>>
> That's ironic, Xfce recommend lightdm as DM for the gtk2 theme, and the
> upcomimng xfce-gtk-engine 3.1 drop gtk3 support.
> 

From what I saw, it didn't drop it. It just disabled it by default, which
makes sense given that the desktop is GTK+2 only and they don't want to
unnecessary pull in the gtk+3 dep only for the engine.

>> Therefore I propose to rename the current "lightdm-gtk3-greeter" into
>> "lightdm-gtk-greeter" and drop the legacy "lightdm-gtk2-greeter" to AUR.
> looking oxygen keep the gtk3 in AUR gtk3 only themes tend to use gtk3 and
> gtk2 only thend to use gtk or gtk2, I will preffer keep the 3 in the name.
>> I could keep "lightdm-gtk2-greeter" around for a while in [community] if
>> some people want me to (I'm thinking people using MATE for example,
>> but it's going towards GTK3 anyway), but keep in mind that you can use
>> LXDM instead if you really need a GTK2 display manager.
> Or Xfce4 users, the upcoming xfce4 release is gtk2, and only after that the
> migration to gtk3 will start.
> so a gtk2-greeter will be apreciated until xfce drop gtk2, and dont forget
> that LXDM is now presumably unmaintained or in low maintainance since they
> migrate to QT
>>
>> If there aren't any objections by the end of the week, I'll proceed with my
>> proposal.
>>
> Me
> 
>> Cheers,
> 

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