F21 Self Contained Change: SDDM as the default KDE display manager instead of KDM

Josh Boyer jwboyer at fedoraproject.org
Mon Apr 14 14:45:25 UTC 2014


On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 9:40 AM, 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> & KDE SIG
>
> Retire KDM as the default display manager of the KDE Fedora Spin in favor of
> SDDM.

<snip>

> == 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

Could you elaborate how this would impact using GDM to boot into a KDE
session?  From a packaging perspective, would KDE now Require SDDM or
would it be possible to install it without having SDDM installed?

josh


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