On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM Paul Brown <paul.br...@kde.org> wrote: > > On Wednesday, 26 March 2025 10:25:30 Central European Standard Time David > Edmundson wrote: > > As discussed in Plasma meetings and Akademy's, Oliver Beard and I have > > been working on incubating SDDM into Plasma whilst also providing a > > more coherent Plasma experience. > > > > This has been implemented as two new repositories: > > > > https://invent.kde.org/davidedmundson/plasma-login-manager) a > > continuation of SDDM with full history. > > https://invent.kde.org/davidedmundson/plasma-login for front end and KCM > > code. > > > > It doesn't have to stay that way. The front end was separate because I > > tried using greetd first. Then the backend is separate as it has SDDM > > history imported. We can choose to merge them, or put the front end in > > plasma-workspace. I'm not sure what we want. > > > > It's not quite at a stage ready for official kdereview, but ready for > > development. > > > > I've written up a blog post, because social media will pick this up > > this thread anyway, and I wanted to explain some previous discussions > > without rehashing here: > > https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/a-roadmap-for-a-modern-plasma-login-m > > anager/ > > Hello David, List, > > Having read the list of new features on your blog post, there is one more > feature I would like to propose. > > I was talking to a legally blind person that explained that one of the reasons > I enjoyed Plasma over other desktop environments was the excellent zoom > feature. He then pointed out that this was not available on the SDDM screen, > which made it difficult for him to log in. > > So that: Can the KWin zoom effect be made available from Plasma Login too?
Yep. Maybe not on day 1, but it should be doable. > P.S.: I tried to file a wishlist bug report on https://bugs.kde.org, but > "Plasma Login" is not on there yet. Yeah, we're not incubated into KDE/Plasma just yet. It will be at some point.
