Hi, In this email, I'm sharing the results of our session about the login manager during the Plasma sprint in Barcelona. It's not conclusive, but gives a pretty good overview of the situation. These notes concentrate on the two most viable options right now, but we realize that the decision for or against a login manager is in the hands of our downstreams. What we can do is make the integration easy, but also only to a certain degree. Pros, cons and the preliminary conclusions are marked with + and - respectively.
SDDM: - Wayland support not yet there - Core functionality is incomplete - we'd likely end up maintaining it - Qt5 port unfinished + possibly more control about direction + GPLv2+ + Qt/C++, ties in well with our skillset + upstream is interested in Wayland support + we could collaborate with Red Hat LightDM: - Copyright assignment - Wayland story utterly unclear - C/QObject-based - bad experience with close collaboration with Canonical + well-tested, works today + Qt5 backend available, front-end to be done + LGPLv2 + short term, it's less work For both cases, the Wayland story is quite unclear still. The decision is definitely not a clear-cut one, both have significant benefits and disadvantages. Our idea of direction so far is to provide a set of QML files so that both can integrate well visually, and revisit the situation after this summer. Feedback is of course welcome and appreciated. Cheers, -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
