On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Thomas Lübking <thomas.luebk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Am 22.08.2012, 14:58 Uhr, schrieb David Edmundson > <da...@davidedmundson.co.uk>: > > Sorry, this is certainly too much in details, but what is that > > >> Features LightDM-KDE has that KDM does not: >> - Guest support login > > > supposed to be? > > I mean, either there's a guest account on the machine or there's not. > If you intend to sell a DM which runtime injects accounts or so, you just > lost a customer ;-P > It "injects" accounts. The part that does this is mostly in the downstream packaging. Also you can uncheck the box "allow guest" in the GUI :) I don't /think/ it's on by default in our code, but Ubuntu packaging turns it on.
> >> - Ability to make customisations such as changing the background >> without having to edit XML > > I read that in the linked description ("had to edit xml as root") - leaving > alone that one could theoretically use a 660 symlink to a wallpaper: You can't really do that, next package upgrade would overwrite it. Either way, it's meddling in a terminal and I don't like that for something trivial. > Is it intended to grant users to alter the greeter appearance w/o any > credentials like polkit etc. in the middle? > > I'd preferably not see any user even alter the wallpaper w/o appropriate > privileges - let alone any QML logics. No, it uses Polkit in the middle. You still get prompted for a password, and need the right privs. You can't edit QML logics in the GUI, that would be a bit weird. Dave