On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Daniel Nicoletti <dantt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Though I have nothing against this move, I'd like to ask a dumb > question (well maybe not that dumb): > Since lightDM-kde greeter is (AFAIK) pretty much just an interface > for lightDM, and since I myself find the user interface much more > user friendly than KDM's one, isn't it possible to remove the GUI > bits from KDM and have it to use the same interface as when using > lightDM? > Surely it isn't a trivial change, but the benefit of having one unified > greeter interface would help people doing themes, I imagine distros > having to create two different themes the both UIs. Thus making > KDM an alternative backend for lightDM-kde. > Problem is the code doesn't contain _just_ a greeter, there's also the configuration KCM which is designed for editing the lightdm config file.
Theoretically you could abstract them both, but the two have a different concepts of what is in the backend and what is in the front end differs, so it would be rather messy, and it would make the KCM for KDM _even more_ complicated with three different front ends to sort out, and fixing that was half the reason I started this project. So whilst it's possible, there's nothing the KDM backend provides that LightDM does not, so I'm not seeing any real gain. I expect a distro to chose one or the other, I can't imagine them wanting to support both, it's not something most users would want to care about or chose between. It's not a dumb question, but I don't think it would provide any gain. Dave _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
