Re: Guest logins, (was Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel))

2012-08-29 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am 29.08.2012, 22:40 Uhr, schrieb David Edmundson : I don't quite understand the point you're trying to make, you propose how a guest session could work, and it's quite similar to what actually happens in LightDM. There's quite a few extra complications, but not a lot. I'm not aware of a sin

Re: Guest logins, (was Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel))

2012-08-29 Thread David Edmundson
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Thomas Lübking wrote: > Am 29.08.2012, 03:21 Uhr, schrieb Harald Sitter : > >> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Thomas Lübking >> wrote: >>> >>> but I'm willing to >>> be enlightened about the striking advances of this integration. >> >> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com

Guest logins, (was Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel))

2012-08-29 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am 29.08.2012, 03:21 Uhr, schrieb Harald Sitter : On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Thomas Lübking wrote: but I'm willing to be enlightened about the striking advances of this integration. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Intrepid/GuestAccount Thanks for the link. Reads like they

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-28 Thread Harald Sitter
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Thomas Lübking wrote: > but I'm willing to > be enlightened about the striking advances of this integration. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Intrepid/GuestAccount

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-28 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am 28.08.2012, 23:35 Uhr, schrieb Albert Astals Cid : And as been already said nobody is forcing you to use it, you can disable the feature. That's not the point. I can take care of myself, thanks. (And for the records: the tarball code actually defaults to "false" - security opt-in is appa

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-28 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dimarts, 28 d'agost de 2012, a les 01:17:03, Thomas Lübking va escriure: > Am 28.08.2012, 00:25 Uhr, schrieb Martin Sandsmark > > : > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 01:58:57PM +0100, David Edmundson wrote: > >> Features LightDM-KDE has that KDM does not: > >> - Guest support login > > > > What doe

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-27 Thread Shaun Reich
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Martin Sandsmark wrote: > Now I'm really confused, isn't the wallpaper just set in /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc? not if you're in themed mode. in which case the theme specifies it, afik -- Shaun Reich, KDE Software Developer (kde.org)

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-27 Thread Martin Sandsmark
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 01:17:03AM +0200, Thomas Lübking wrote: > To me it sounds as if the package contains a postinstall script to > "useradd guest" for a pwdless login. > I cannot say to really appreciate such "feature" :-\ Uh, that sounds kind of bad for a DM, yes. > He's talking about the x

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-27 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am 28.08.2012, 00:25 Uhr, schrieb Martin Sandsmark : On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 01:58:57PM +0100, David Edmundson wrote: Features LightDM-KDE has that KDM does not: - Guest support login What does the DM have to do with this? David Edmundson schrieb On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Thomas

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-27 Thread Martin Sandsmark
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 01:58:57PM +0100, David Edmundson wrote: > Features LightDM-KDE has that KDM does not: > - Guest support login What does the DM have to do with this? > - Ability to make customisations such as changing the background > without having to edit XML Isn't the kdm config fi

Re: Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-27 Thread Alex Fiestas
On Thursday 23 August 2012 12:57:43 Harald Sitter wrote: > FWIW, last I talked to Robert about Canonical's involvement (which I > believe was at UDS in May last year) only the greeters were to be > covered by the CLA. Only the greeters created by Canonical, not all of them.

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-23 Thread David Edmundson
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Thomas Lübking wrote: > Am 22.08.2012, 14:58 Uhr, schrieb David Edmundson > : > > Sorry, this is certainly too much in details, but what is that > > >> Features LightDM-KDE has that KDM does not: >> - Guest support login > > > supposed to be? > > I mean, either th

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-23 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am 22.08.2012, 14:58 Uhr, schrieb David Edmundson : Sorry, this is certainly too much in details, but what is that Features LightDM-KDE has that KDM does not: - Guest support login supposed to be? I mean, either there's a guest account on the machine or there's not. If you intend to sell

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-23 Thread Harald Sitter
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:27 PM, David Edmundson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Matthias Klumpp > wrote: >> 2012/8/22 Albert Astals Cid : >>> El Dimecres, 22 d'agost de 2012, a les 13:58:57, David Edmundson va >>> escriure: As you're all probably aware I've been working on a n

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-23 Thread David Edmundson
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > 2012/8/22 Albert Astals Cid : >> El Dimecres, 22 d'agost de 2012, a les 13:58:57, David Edmundson va escriure: >>> As you're all probably aware I've been working on a new login manager >>> for KDE [1]. Currently known as LightDM-KDE, named

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-23 Thread David Edmundson
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Andras Mantia wrote: > On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 01:58:57 PM David Edmundson wrote: >> - a big refactor (see branch "big_refactor") > > Without going into other details: what would be the reason to merge LightDM > *now*, if you have a big refactoring undergoin

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-23 Thread Andras Mantia
On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 01:58:57 PM David Edmundson wrote: > - a big refactor (see branch "big_refactor") Without going into other details: what would be the reason to merge LightDM *now*, if you have a big refactoring undergoing? Andras

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-22 Thread David Edmundson
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Yuri Chornoivan wrote: > написане Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:58:57 +0300, David Edmundson > : > > >> As you're all probably aware I've been working on a new login manager >> for KDE [1]. Currently known as LightDM-KDE, named as it is based on >> the display manager backen

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-22 Thread David Edmundson
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El Dimecres, 22 d'agost de 2012, a les 13:58:57, David Edmundson va escriure: >> As you're all probably aware I've been working on a new login manager >> for KDE [1]. Currently known as LightDM-KDE, named as it is based on >> the display

Re: Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-22 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Wednesday 22 August 2012 20:44:00 Sune Vuorela wrote: > From my personal view and as a packager, I would say "we only need *one* > display manager in the workspace". So, if lightdm comes, then KDM must > go in my opinion. No, LightDM-KDE and KDM solve different problems. KDM is a full-blown disp

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-22 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2012/8/22 Albert Astals Cid : > El Dimecres, 22 d'agost de 2012, a les 13:58:57, David Edmundson va escriure: >> As you're all probably aware I've been working on a new login manager >> for KDE [1]. Currently known as LightDM-KDE, named as it is based on >> the display manager backend LightDM [2].

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-22 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dimecres, 22 d'agost de 2012, a les 13:58:57, David Edmundson va escriure: > As you're all probably aware I've been working on a new login manager > for KDE [1]. Currently known as LightDM-KDE, named as it is based on > the display manager backend LightDM [2]. How's the upstream of ligthdm? Hav

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-22 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2012-08-22, David Edmundson wrote: > release. This isn't a decision forced by Canonical, they just think > it's better, though obviously it helps that the backend is already > tested on Ubuntu. Other distributions have also expressed an interest, Is LightDM a canonical project? one that is cov

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-22 Thread Yuri Chornoivan
написане Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:58:57 +0300, David Edmundson : As you're all probably aware I've been working on a new login manager for KDE [1]. Currently known as LightDM-KDE, named as it is based on the display manager backend LightDM [2]. I'm sure many of you will have questions "why wa

[RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-22 Thread David Edmundson
As you're all probably aware I've been working on a new login manager for KDE [1]. Currently known as LightDM-KDE, named as it is based on the display manager backend LightDM [2]. I've just released 0.3, and it's mature enough that Kubuntu are choosing to have it as their default display manager i