On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org> wrote:
> On Monday, November 4, 2013 13:19:37 Martin Klapetek wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Sebastian Kügler <se...@kde.org> wrote: > > > Martin: > > > - Splash architecture: splash should probably go into SDDM, own > process is > > > too > > > wasteful > > > > While I agree that own process can be too wasteful, putting it inside > SDDM > > would mean putting it either into all login managers or having a fallback > > solution for non-SDDM distros like Kubuntu. Both mean added maintenance > > (and very possibly duplicated code too?). > > It can be provided by whatever DM is used. Saying “we’re going to make the > user experience worse” just because we can’t/won’t integrate with necessary > systems is not sensible. That's not what I said nor intended to say. I merely pointed out that this would cause a SDDM-lock-in for "the true PW2 experience". > Our users should never suffer because we can’t figure > out the technology, and having a separate process for the splash screen > slows > down startup times, True, though most of the libs are already preloaded by the login manager, so it's not completely cold start. > introduces more screen transitions Well...the screen would have a transition from the login screen even with integrated splash, no? > and means more > maintenance for us. > How is that more maintenance for us if the code lives standalone (compared to being part of SDDM or whatever)? It would be moreless the same codebase, just in a different directory. > The worst case scenario is that users do not get a splash screen. Which is actually "we're going to make the user experience worse". > This is > similar to a growing number of features which don’t work (at all or as > well) > without required system components. I'm not aware of those...can you give some examples? > > SDDM and LightDM, btw, use the same D-Bus interface, and that’s not an > accident, so if there is needed DBus communication I’m sure we can continue > that trend. > Note that I don't have anything against putting it into DM, I'm just worried about putting it into *one* DM only as a custom extension. Btw. is SDDM going to be a required thing for PW2? Cheers -- Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
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