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From: ng0 <ng0@n0.is>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 29447@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#29447] [PATCH 0/2] Make Xorg modules configurable, remove WindowMaker dependency
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 22:39:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171125223925.qhtdnpkjl25fvls2@abyayala> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171125222737.3255-1-ludo@gnu.org>

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Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.0K bytes:
> Hi,
> 
> The first patch here cleans up ‘xorg-configuration-file’ et al. such
> that users can pass a list of modules to use (until now the list of
> modules was hard-coded in ‘xorg-configuration-file’.)
> 
> The second one removes WindowMaker as the default fallback session.
> Instead, the default is to look for a .desktop file at run time in the
> user and system profiles.
> 
> The downside is that if no package provides a .dekstop file, then login
> fails.  I think that’s acceptable though, because people expect to
> specify a list of window managers in the ‘packages’ field anyway, as
> show in the lightweight-desktop example.
> 
> Thoughts?

Overall, good.
What I think is lacking is that we add in the Documentation that
adding a WM/DM is necessary to get started.
It might sound like a little too much of a Cpt. Obvious, but
we can't assume everyone understand the implications of not
defining a WM/DM in the config.

> Ludo’.
> 
> Ludovic Courtès (2):
>   services: xorg: Allow users to specify a list of modules.
>   services: xorg: Remove WindowMaker as a default fallback.
> 
>  doc/guix.texi         |  26 ++++--
>  gnu/services/xorg.scm | 244 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>  2 files changed, 189 insertions(+), 81 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.15.0
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-25 22:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-25 22:27 [bug#29447] [PATCH 0/2] Make Xorg modules configurable, remove WindowMaker dependency Ludovic Courtès
2017-11-25 22:28 ` [bug#29447] [PATCH 1/2] services: xorg: Allow users to specify a list of modules Ludovic Courtès
2017-11-25 22:28   ` [bug#29447] [PATCH 2/2] services: xorg: Remove WindowMaker as a default fallback Ludovic Courtès
2017-11-25 22:39 ` ng0 [this message]
2017-11-27 13:58   ` [bug#29447] [PATCH 0/2] Make Xorg modules configurable, remove WindowMaker dependency Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-11-28 10:26     ` bug#29447: " Ludovic Courtès

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