Re: Switch back to KDM?

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On 09.12.2013 12:41, Adam Pribyl wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Dec 2013, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> On 12/08/13 12:05, Christopher Meng wrote:
>>>> Target to f21:
>>>>
>>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SDDMinsteadOfKDM
>>>
>>> Thanks....  I thought the target was F20 since it was in all the previous
>>> test releases.  I guess this is a good explanation ....
>>>
>>> SDDM is now lacking some functionality compared to KDM, namely XDMCP, VNC and
>>> multi-seat support. They are planned to be added.
>>
>> Martin Briza, the KDE SIG guys is working a lot on XDMCP and multi seat support
>> - not sure what support is already there. But the initial idea behind switching
>> to SDDM was - it works pretty well for standard use cases, everyone who needs
>> more features can switch back to KDE. In the end - even these standard usecases
>> were not covered very well, so it was postponed to F21. KDM really has to die,
>> it's dead for several years now...
> 
> Hm, so GDM is useless for XDMCP, multiseat, multihead and long user lists, 
> KDM is dead, but still usable, switching to SDDM is fine for standard use 
> case on desktop but lacking XDMCP and multiseat... this does not sound 
> very good to me.

Very detailed,
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/LightDM
It is not clear why they do not want to use it!?


poma


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