On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 09:22:23 +0200, Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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)
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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?
I can add it, you're right this is an important task before we can ship
the DM.
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