> On Sept. 3, 2013, 10:20 p.m., Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > given that there is no intention to make further feature releases of the > > kde workspace which will include kdm, i wonder why we'd go through the > > (potentially tedious) process of upstreaming this now? > > Stefan Brüns wrote: > The reason for sending this was to have one canonical implementation for > multiseat support which is upstream. > Otherwise, any patches/bugreports must be coordinated downstream, which I > really dislike. > > Reason for pushing this into KDM is that: > a) KDM is here today and will stay for some time > b) this patch has been tested thoroughly > c) alternative DMs are not up to the job yet (SDDM) or introduce > additional dependencies (GDM) > d) I want multiseat support in the DM now, not in a distant future > > Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > that's besides the point. whatever gets merged now will never be > released. i'm not quite sure why the responsible persons didn't rm -rf the > directories yet. > > Martin Tobias Holmedahl Sandsmark wrote: > Well, at least it gives distros somewhere to pick the patch from.
provided any distro still wants to make a new feature release. anyway, you'll understand that my motivation to invest effort into this is kinda low, time constraints notwithstanding. i may reconsider if i see credible support for such a patch from multiple downstreams here. - Oswald ----------------------------------------------------------- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/112294/#review39302 ----------------------------------------------------------- On Sept. 2, 2013, 11:34 p.m., Stefan Brüns wrote: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: > http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/112294/ > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > (Updated Sept. 2, 2013, 11:34 p.m.) > > > Review request for kde-workspace and Oswald Buddenhagen. > > > Description > ------- > > This patch implements dynamic multiseat in KDM. It follows the description in: > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/writing-display-managers/ > > In case systemd is no found at compile time, nothing changes. If logind is > not running, nothing changes. If no additional seats have been configured > (some Plugable USB-GPUs are automatically added as additional seats), nothing > changes. > > In case there are additional seats beyond seat0, a reserved display is > promoted to a local static one (and demoted if the seat is removed) and a new > X-Server/greeter is spawned. > > The code has been tested extensively, with a combination of [Radeon dedicated > GPU|Intel iGPU], [Intel iGPU|Displaylink USB GPU] and others. For history of > this patch, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=884271 and > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975079 > > > Diffs > ----- > > CMakeLists.txt a3bdbb3 > cmake/modules/CMakeLists.txt 117b3a5 > cmake/modules/FindSystemd.cmake PRE-CREATION > kdm/backend/CMakeLists.txt 25f383f > kdm/backend/client.c 26bb0b4 > kdm/backend/dm.h 64e106b > kdm/backend/dm.c e0f1366 > kdm/backend/server.c d8dd6f3 > kdm/backend/session.c 0e7901c > > Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/112294/diff/ > > > Testing > ------- > > Single seat system, several multiseat systems > > > Thanks, > > Stefan Brüns > >
