ubiquity-dm implementations needed for other window managers?

I have verified and this is true according to:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/admin/ubiquity-frontend-gtk

This is also true in Hardy right now:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/admin/ubiquity-frontend-gtk

Confirming the bug, as I believe there is enough info for a developer to respond.

It's like this because the only-ubiquity installation mode (which is likely to become the default in Hardy) includes a minimal display-manager-like implementation that needs to start a window manager, and currently relies on metacity in the case where the GTK frontend is to be used. In order to weaken this dependency, an alternative implementation using a different window manager needs to be provided. Mantas, could you please do this? The file in question is bin/ubiquity-dm.

I've committed a change for ubiquity 1.7.13 to handle xfwm4. It should be obvious now how to add further window managers if you so desire.

You could also add matchbox (matchbox-window-manager) because it will be use in the future Sugar live-cd made by Jani Monoses and Sugar also have all the dependency that ubiquity require.

Please supply tested patches if you want this. I'm afraid that the core ubiquity team isn't likely to have time to develop implementations for lots of different window managers.

I thought it was simple to add new window managers because I just add those line in the bin/ubiquity-dm file at line 131 and everythings seemed to work ok.

elif osextras.find_on_path('matchbox-window-manager'):
    wm = subprocess.Popen('matchbox-window-manager',
        stdin=null, stdout=logfile, stderr=logfile,
        preexec_fn=self.drop_privileges)

I will look deeper to see if I miss something.

Thanks, Patrick. Not quite a patch but that will do. I've committed an adjusted version of this to ubiquity trunk for Intrepid.

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