Switch back to KDM?

[Jaroslav Reznik]

----- Original Message -----
> On 09.12.2013 12:41, Adam Pribyl wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Dec 2013, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> > 
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> On 12/08/13 12:05, Christopher Meng wrote:
> >>>> Target to f21:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SDDMinsteadOfKDM
> >>>
> >>> Thanks....  I thought the target was F20 since it was in all the previous
> >>> test releases.  I guess this is a good explanation ....
> >>>
> >>> SDDM is now lacking some functionality compared to KDM, namely XDMCP, VNC
> >>> and
> >>> multi-seat support. They are planned to be added.
> >>
> >> Martin Briza, the KDE SIG guys is working a lot on XDMCP and multi seat
> >> support
> >> - not sure what support is already there. But the initial idea behind
> >> switching
> >> to SDDM was - it works pretty well for standard use cases, everyone who
> >> needs
> >> more features can switch back to KDE. In the end - even these standard
> >> usecases
> >> were not covered very well, so it was postponed to F21. KDM really has to
> >> die,
> >> it's dead for several years now...
> > 
> > Hm, so GDM is useless for XDMCP, multiseat, multihead and long user lists,
> > KDM is dead, but still usable, switching to SDDM is fine for standard use
> > case on desktop but lacking XDMCP and multiseat... this does not sound
> > very good to me.
> 
> Very detailed,
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/LightDM
> It is not clear why they do not want to use it!?

http://aseigo.blogspot.cz/2013/03/logging-into-plasma-workspaces-2.html

It's a bit Mir vs Wayland, Canonical CLA and that SDDM feels "native" to Qt
guys. But as far as I know, there was no final call.

Jaroslav

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