On 2012-08-22, David Edmundson <da...@davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote: > release. This isn't a decision forced by Canonical, they just think > it's better, though obviously it helps that the backend is already > tested on Ubuntu. Other distributions have also expressed an interest,
Is LightDM a canonical project? one that is covered by the license agreement htat several high profile kde developers have refused to sign? I remember the adventure with dbusmenu-qt, a canonical project, wasn't too pleasant because of that. > obviously I do feel mine is better. What I would like to do is discuss > moving LightDM into KDE workspaces _alongside_ KDM and making > compiling KDM optional, but keeping it enabled by default. >From my personal view and as a packager, I would say "we only need *one* display manager in the workspace". So, if lightdm comes, then KDM must go in my opinion. > Features KDM has that are still missing in LightDM-KDE > - ability to switch X sessions > - connect to remote XDMCP sessions > - Get hot new stuff/theme installer > - Ability to reboot into a different grub entry(not that that > actually works for me) > > What's coming in the future: > - everything important KDM has :) Which of the above bits is not important? /Sune