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On Sunday 28 September 2003 23:37, Tom Wesley wrote: |
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> On Sunday 28 September 2003 16:53, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> > When you log out of kde, and you started your system with kdm (kde |
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> > display manager) you get presented a nice dialog with the options to log |
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> > out, reboot, or shutdown. However if you started the system with any |
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> > other displaymanager, such as gdm, you don't get the menu. It would be |
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> > conceivable that we at a point in time added patches to kdm so that it |
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> > does the same with gdm (which provides the capabilities as gnome offers |
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> > it too, but only for gdm). |
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> Should this not be patched upstream, and only included in Gentoo as an |
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> option (use-flags or such) until such time as included in main source? |
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This policy was the number one main reason that first attracted me to Gentoo. |
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Surely this policy has been an important part of Gentoo since its beginnings |
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(See 'Rant' on http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-dist2.html). |
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Recently the Gentoo-Hardened team in particular have been aggressive in |
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pushing their changes upstream. |
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I wouldnt want to see this change. |
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Toby Dickenson |
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