Hi,
Due to some concerns that were raised regarding further KDM inclusion, I'm adding this information to the change description: KDM will still be included in the repositories of Fedora, the change affects only new installations of Fedora 20, which will have SDDM enabled as the default DM, with the option to switch to KDM (or any other DM) freely.
Cheers, Martin
On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 20:03:22 +0200, Jaroslav Reznik jreznik@redhat.com wrote:
= Proposed Self Contained Change: SDDM as the default KDE display manager instead of KDM = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SDDMinsteadOfKDM
Change owner(s): Martin Briza mbriza@redhat.com and KDE SIG
Retire KDM as the default display manager of the KDE Fedora Spin in favor of SDDM.
== Detailed description == As described in many articles and discussions, KDM is nearing its end of life and it's time we decided upon the successor.
I'm proposing to switch to SDDM, which is a new project that suits our needs perfectly despite its immaturity:
As of July 2013, KDM's maintenance consists of bugfixes for the most painful bugs, consisting of only about 20 actual commits to the repository in last two years (excluding translation, themes and merges), adding many new features would require major changes to a lot of the code and there is no active maintainer.
SDDM is written in C++11/Qt5 (compared to the bits of XDM in KDM), compilable against Qt4, supports QtQuick theming and its upstream is quite active.
Compared to the current DM, KDM, it currently lacks a few features (such as XDMCP) but adds some other ones (QtQuick themes) or is currently adding them (Keyboard layout switching in the greeter).
== Scope == Proposal owners:
- Create sddm and sddm-kcm packages.
- Change kde-settings and the spin-kickstarts to provide SDDM package
instead of KDM
- (eventually) exclude KDM from the kde-workspace package
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