F20 Self Contained Change: SDDM as the default KDE DM

[Martin Briza]

To add to this article, there are some bits in the Documentation part of  
the change proposal.
Some information is already obsolete though because of fast pace of  
development of SDDM.
To conclude, the main reasons are the CLA which is a participation blocker  
for many people and better outlook on future maintenance (for us, used to  
KDE codebase), as it's written in C++ and Qt, compared to C and Glib in  
LightDM.

On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 10:09:00 +0200, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com>  
wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
>> I thought I recall reading a plan about kde moving to lightdm at one
>> point?
>>
>> Perhaps you could mention the reasons SSDM was decided over lightdm-qt?
>
> Not up to date comparison -  
> http://aseigo.blogspot.cz/2013/03/logging-into-plasma-workspaces-2.html
> Martin knows more about decision later, I can see Canonical's CLA and
> future Wayland support as the main reasons.
>
> Jaroslav
>
>> This might be of area to other spins that use lightdm currently and
>> might wish to look at SSDM too.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> kevin