Switch back to KDM?

[poma]

On 09.12.2013 13:38, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> ----- 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.

OK I see.
I assume therefore that the Qt port and continue from there is not a
valuable option.
Thanks for the link.


poma