Hi,
Due to some concerns that were raised regarding further KDM inclusion, I'm
adding this information to the change description:
KDM will still be included in the repositories of Fedora, the change
affects only new installations of Fedora 20, which will have SDDM enabled
as the default DM, with the option to switch to KDM (or any other DM)
freely.
Cheers,
Martin
On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 20:03:22 +0200, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
= Proposed Self Contained Change: SDDM as the default KDE display manager
instead of KDM =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SDDMinsteadOfKDM
Change owner(s): Martin Briza <mbriza@xxxxxxxxxx> and KDE SIG
Retire KDM as the default display manager of the KDE Fedora Spin in
favor of
SDDM.
== Detailed description ==
As described in many articles and discussions, KDM is nearing its end of
life
and it's time we decided upon the successor.
I'm proposing to switch to SDDM, which is a new project that suits our
needs
perfectly despite its immaturity:
As of July 2013, KDM's maintenance consists of bugfixes for the most
painful
bugs, consisting of only about 20 actual commits to the repository in
last two
years (excluding translation, themes and merges), adding many new
features
would require major changes to a lot of the code and there is no active
maintainer.
SDDM is written in C++11/Qt5 (compared to the bits of XDM in KDM),
compilable
against Qt4, supports QtQuick theming and its upstream is quite active.
Compared to the current DM, KDM, it currently lacks a few features (such
as
XDMCP) but adds some other ones (QtQuick themes) or is currently adding
them
(Keyboard layout switching in the greeter).
== Scope ==
Proposal owners:
* Create sddm and sddm-kcm packages.
* Change kde-settings and the spin-kickstarts to provide SDDM package
instead
of KDM
* (eventually) exclude KDM from the kde-workspace package
Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
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