Laurent Montel wrote:
Le Monday 03 February 2003 15:39, Jason Straight a �crit :I took a look at it last night and I immediately felt I knew the reason behind the redesign: Newbies. If you stand back and look at it from the right perspective, it looks like an attempt to copy the XP login manager, only instead of having the Icon's and names on the background, it's all in a window.
Now that I feel mandrake has done the politically correct thing by notmdkkdm use kcontrol->kdm configuration file.
taking away our choice, I'd like to know more about mdkkdm and what it's
plans are?
One suggestion, move it to another name so it can be installed alongside
kdebase-kdm, so those of us who want to help can flip back and forth as we
play ;)
I take it due to it's initial replacement of kdm that it's supposed to be a
100% compatible drop in for kdm, is it meant to have perfect function match
eventually? I mean will all features in the kcontrol panel eventually
reflect settings to mdkkdm?
What is the whole reason behind mdkkdm? Just branding or is there some goalThere is not new feature.
to new added functionality that's being worked on?
In the past I've seen mdk changes that were not liked at first, I remember
some rpmdrake things that really pissed people off, but mdk came through
with a very nice rpmdrake. I trust that will happen with mdkkdm as well,
but I'm glad the choice isn't taken away from us now to use what we want to
use.
I think kde's kdm is really nice, couldn't the kdm that's already thereNew kdm is a just a redesign of kdm.
just have some branding added to it by mdk without redoing the layout and
functions?
Regards.
I still think it should be a separate package however even in
that case.
XP works fairly similar in that you have to click on a name before you get a password prompt. Also, it hides administrator users as well.
Overall, it's got potential. Some things I'd like to see fixed (if they haven't been already) are:
* Don't make the any of the buttons at the bottom of the dialog have focus. This way enter won't
reboot or halt the computer.
* If possible, make an option to have the names and icons drawn on the desktop like XP with
themable placement.
* In keeping with recent discussions on switching users, one thing XP does that this login manager
is ideal for is showing who's logged in already and if there are programs running for that user.
Perhaps grayscaling or fading the icon for logged in users and have a line under is saying "XX open
applications". you could filter out GNOME or KDE desktop related processes to show "apps".
Just some suggestions....
Scott
