Rex Dieter composed on 2016-03-11 19:05 (UTC+0600):
Felix Miata wrote:
> Rex Dieter composed on 2016-03-11 18:13 (UTC-0600):
>>
Felix Miata wrote:
>>> Rex Dieter composed on 2016-03-11 13:13 (UTC-0600):
>>>> I am considering finally EOL'ing kdm in time for
fedora 24, anyone
>>>> still interested in keeping it alive?
>>> I can't be a maintainer, but as it's the only DM
I'm aware of that
>>> provides required functionality, I hope it need not be retired before
>>> something provides functionality equivalent to it.
>> OK, I'll bite. What counts as "required
functionality" for you?
>> In particular, what's missing from other dm's (sddm
in particular)?
> I don't remember the whole list of functionality missing when
last I
> checked sddm or lightdm, but at the top of the list I distinctly remember
> missing remained the ability to specify a list of specific users to be
> *included* in the greeter's userlist.
That's something that only kdm can do as far as I'm aware.
> Who is sddm's upstream?
I've never been able to figure out how to search and get non-zero results
reasonably less than infinity in any github tracker. :-(
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