Re: Merging the new ldm

On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 09:33:16AM -0400, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> The first major change I had on my list for a while is the rewrite
> (almost) of LDM that we did here at Revolution Linux.
... 
> That version includes:
>  - LDM is no longer a fullscreen app, it's now a simple dialog + a
> background
>  - We are using Scotty's wwm for window management
>  - SSH and RDP support are now plugins meaning regular LTSP and RDP are
> both using the same user interface
> 
> Merging will be a bit tricky as that branch is quite old and it seems a
> bit broken, so worst case scenario I'll just re-apply the changes one by
> one on ldm-trunk.
> 
> That version is supposed to make it a lot easier to add more "backend"
> such as NX and even support for an alternate authentication method (as
> we discussed at last BTS).

this sounds great!

> My hope is to have that merged in ldm-trunk somewhere this week,
> comments and patches are as always welcome ;)

if it's based on the branch mentioned last may:

  http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20100503185418.GC14316%40legalaid.mb.ca&forum_name=ltsp-developer

that didn't work at all on Debian at the time;  i would have appreciated an
opportunity to test it before it got merged into trunk.

that said, i look forward to the new functionality. it sounds like some really
good improvements. :)


live well,
  vagrant

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