linuxmint / linuxmint/slick-greeter
Support for Drop-in config directories
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Description
Right now, the config is /etc/lightdm/slick-greeter.conf. Many system settings also have a .d directory that allows the user to add extra files that are also loaded. In this case, it would likely be /etc/lightdm/slick-greeter.conf.d/<something>.conf or something of the like.
There are many use cases for this, for example with automation like Ansible, where it is very inconvenient to deal with a single file config, whereas drop-in directories would make it trivial to simply add a file instead of parsing the config.
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Research direction
Start by locating the code that loads /etc/lightdm/slick-greeter.conf and check how configuration files are discovered and parsed. Define the ordering and naming rules for /etc/lightdm/slick-greeter.conf.d/.conf, then verify that drop-in settings are loaded alongside the existing configuration and that the current single-file behavior remains supported.
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Assessment
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100