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. 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, introduces more screen transitions and means more maintenance for us. The worst case scenario is that users do not get a splash screen. This is similar to a growing number of features which don’t work (at all or as well) without required system components. 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. -- Aaron J. Seigo _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
