Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

[Mathieu Bridon]

On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 10:01 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 02/05/2013 07:49 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 17:17 +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
> >> On 05/02/13 16:58, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> >>
> >>> What's worse is that it's harder than it used to be to change the
> >>> desktop---desktop style is no longer a login-time selection. In fact, I
> >>> am not sure what is the recommended method nowadays--- groupinstall KDE
> >>> + groupremove Gnome? but this can't be right for XFCE which I think
> >>> shares stuff with Gnome..
> >>
> >> If you want to change what display manager is used then just change what
> >> /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service points to.
> >>
> >> What desktop a display manager starts will be a display manager specific
> >> configuration option.
> >
> > ...but as Rahul said, they all allow you to log in to any desktop. There
> > seems to be a meme in this thread that GDM does not, but that's not
> > correct, it does. The choice is not visible unless you actually have
> > multiple desktops installed, but when you do, it gives you the option.
> 
> I know this applies, but installing gnome-shell pulls in gdm.

Wouldn't that just be a packaging bug?

gnome-shell requires gdm-libs
gdm requires gdm-libs

The requirement gdm-libs has on gdm seems unneeded at first glance.


-- 
Mathieu