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Bug 176150 - Remove x11-misc/ login.app from the tree and add x11-misc/slim from sunrise
Summary: Remove x11-misc/ login.app from the tree and add x11-misc/slim from sunrise
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Desktop Misc. Team
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Reported: 2007-04-26 18:44 UTC by Daniel Pielmeier
Modified: 2007-05-02 17:02 UTC (History)
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Description Daniel Pielmeier gentoo-dev 2007-04-26 18:44:32 UTC
It seems that login.app is dead and gone. The homepage is not reachable anymore. The last update to tree was 17 months ago. 
It would be a good idea to remove it and replace it with its successor slim, which is already in sunrise.

http://slim.berlios.de/
http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/browser/sunrise/x11-misc/slim
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107526

There is also another lightweight login-manager out there, it is called "enter" see:
http://enter.sourceforge.net/
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172739

I can not speak for enter as i have not tested it yet, but slim is quite useful, especially for xcfe-users who don't want to install gdm or kdm with it`s dependencies. Okay there is xdm, but is is rather ugly. Image you have a nice splash theme at startup and a nice configured desktop and between the xdm login manager.
Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-05-02 17:02:04 UTC
x11-misc/slim added to tree, x11-misc/login-app masked for removal in 30 days.