On 14 April 2014 14:40, 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> & 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) > _______________________________________________ Does scope need to include a specific plan to deal with this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1034414 since failure to login is worse than any bug in KDM? -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
