F20 Self Contained Change: SDDM as the default KDE DM

[Martin Briza]

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 at redhat.com>  
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 at redhat.com> 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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