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

[Martin Briza]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 08:14:11 +0200, Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 2014-04-14, 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
>>
> Is the SDDM mature enough to replace more-or-less working KDM?
>
> I ask because there has not been a release yet (the one year old
> 0.1.0 was just a payground snapshot).
>
> Even such fundamental thing like user authentication is unfinished (use
> `getpwent()` instead of reading from `/etc/passwd`
> <https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/123>).
>
> -- Petr
>

Coincidentally, one patch for getpwent was merged today.
The community around the project is becoming more active these days, we're  
considering options to replace the original author, that doesn't seem to  
have enough time for proper maintenance (despite coming back to live a few  
hours ago).