Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-17 Thread Nuno Pinheiro
A Quarta, 15 de Junho de 2011 17:11:27 Martin Gräßlin você escreveu: > On Wednesday 15 June 2011 17:46:08 Alex Fiestas wrote: > > On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 05:37:14 PM todd rme wrote: > > > There are apparently people willing to implement KDE support in > > > LightDM, so why don't they instead im

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-15 Thread Shaun Reich
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote: > Seriously, displaying unread emails ? > From which user ? All of them. MSWIN interates through each user in the listview displaying unread mails for each. (it's just a count of unread emails..obviously you don't want other people sift

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-15 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday 14 June 2011, Harald Sitter wrote: ... > Yet despite having complete control we did not manage to come up with a > truly good workspace experience that starts at the DM (power management, > good looks, I for one have yet to see a sane UI-wise integration of stuff > like fingerprint auth,

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-15 Thread Alex Fiestas
On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 05:43:44 PM Martin Gräßlin wrote: > On Wednesday 15 June 2011 12:22:10 Alex Fiestas wrote: > > But right now: (Once again this is what I see from outside:) > > -KDM developers have no plans > > This seems incorrect, given Shaun's work on Plasma - and after the > discuss

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-15 Thread Alex Fiestas
On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 06:11:27 PM Martin Gräßlin wrote: > On Wednesday 15 June 2011 17:46:08 Alex Fiestas wrote: > > On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 05:37:14 PM todd rme wrote: > > > There are apparently people willing to implement KDE support in > > > LightDM, so why don't they instead improve K

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-15 Thread Alex Fiestas
On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 05:55:03 PM todd rme wrote: > So in other words when LightDM is mature no one will work on it and we > will be left with the same problem? Maybe, though if it remains active and healthy then we may not.

Re: Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-15 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Wednesday 15 June 2011 17:46:08 Alex Fiestas wrote: > On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 05:37:14 PM todd rme wrote: > > There are apparently people willing to implement KDE support in > > LightDM, so why don't they instead improve KDM? Why should they be > > putting their effort into an immature proj

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-15 Thread todd rme
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Alex Fiestas wrote: > On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 05:37:14 PM todd rme wrote: >> There are apparently people willing to implement KDE support in >> LightDM, so why don't they instead improve KDM?  Why should they be >> putting their effort into an immature project

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-15 Thread Alex Fiestas
On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 05:37:14 PM todd rme wrote: > There are apparently people willing to implement KDE support in > LightDM, so why don't they instead improve KDM? Why should they be > putting their effort into an immature project instead of a mature one? Because they're motivated to work

Re: Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-15 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Wednesday 15 June 2011 12:22:10 Alex Fiestas wrote: > But right now: (Once again this is what I see from outside:) > -KDM developers have no plans This seems incorrect, given Shaun's work on Plasma - and after the discussion in this thread this should be known by now. > -KDM maintainer has no

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-15 Thread todd rme
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Alex Fiestas wrote: > On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 08:20:35 AM todd rme wrote: >> There seems to be an implicit assumption here that if we are going to >> go the cross-desktop route it would have to be LightDM that we pick. >> But if KDM is already pluggable enough

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-15 Thread Shaun Reich
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:20 AM, todd rme wrote: > I gather from the discussion that most, if not all, the features that > KDM still needs are also lacking in LightDM, while KDM has lots of > features LightDM does not.  So if we are talking about wasted > resources, >wouldn't it waste far fewer r

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-15 Thread Shaun Reich
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 6:59 PM, David Edmundson wrote: >Does KDM still run the greeters as root? No. It's been not doing that for about a year or so. -- Shaun Reich, KDE Software Developer (kde.org)

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-15 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:00:00PM +0200, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > 2 takes long to start > > I think lightdm solves (2), but does so by cutting features, features > which we probably need (some asked for XDMCP as an example). > no, it solves it by not using qt+kdeui (and even less plasma). if y

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-15 Thread David Edmundson
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Harald Sitter wrote: > On Tuesday 14 June 2011 14:55:58 Shaun Reich wrote: >> How does lightDM even handle different authentication types? KDM has a >> plugin system which handles different auth types (fingerprint, >> winbindd, etc.). >> >> However, the fundamenta

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-15 Thread Alex Fiestas
Just to clarify something... I'm not pushing lightDM into KDE in anyway, it is not my favorite DM or anything like that, though I see it as a highly interesting project with a healthy and active community and I do think that KDE should be leading the Qtness of the project as well as be sure tha

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-15 Thread Alex Fiestas
On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 08:20:35 AM todd rme wrote: > There seems to be an implicit assumption here that if we are going to > go the cross-desktop route it would have to be LightDM that we pick. > But if KDM is already pluggable enough that you can easily rip out the > GUI and write and entire

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-15 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Hi Alex, On Monday, June 13, 2011 21:10:36 Alex Fiestas wrote: > Today something happened to me again, I turn on my laptop at the begining of > a meeting and when I needed it the battery was over because the laptop > didn't went to suspension (as I'm used). > > That makes me wonder what are the p

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-14 Thread todd rme
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Harald Sitter wrote: > On Tuesday 14 June 2011 15:37:25 Shaun Reich wrote: >> Everybody talks about it like it's some magical unicorn that hasn't >> been spotted before, but the truth is, it's staring everyone in the >> face. >> >> In fact, I have dealt directly wi

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-14 Thread Harald Sitter
On Tuesday 14 June 2011 15:37:25 Shaun Reich wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Harald Sitter wrote: > > Should that ever get finished. Shaun? > > Good question ;-) > Yeah, it's in a pretty finished state, after my unintentional hiatus. > Mostly I've been cleaning stuff up(and yes, I've be

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-14 Thread Shaun Reich
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Harald Sitter wrote: > Should that ever get finished. Shaun? Good question ;-) Yeah, it's in a pretty finished state, after my unintentional hiatus. Mostly I've been cleaning stuff up(and yes, I've been actively committing lately), so that the qml code can look th

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-14 Thread Harald Sitter
On Tuesday 14 June 2011 14:55:58 Shaun Reich wrote: > How does lightDM even handle different authentication types? KDM has a > plugin system which handles different auth types (fingerprint, > winbindd, etc.). > > However, the fundamental flaw that I can see..is that at some level or > another, the

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-14 Thread Harald Sitter
On Tuesday 14 June 2011 22:19:40 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > On Tuesday 14 June 2011 20:26:45 Harald Sitter wrote: > > > > Agreed. > > > > Yet despite having complete control we did not manage to come up with a > > truly good workspace experience that starts at the DM (power > > management, good loo

Re: Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-14 Thread Shaun Reich
Slight shift of topic as well...but: How does lightDM even handle different authentication types? KDM has a plugin system which handles different auth types (fingerprint, winbindd, etc.). However, the fundamental flaw that I can see..is that at some level or another, the UI/Greeter *has* to know

Re: Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-14 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Tuesday 14 June 2011 20:26:45 Harald Sitter wrote: > Agreed. > > Yet despite having complete control we did not manage to come up with a truly > good workspace experience that starts at the DM (power management, good > looks, > I for one have yet to see a sane UI-wise integration of stuff

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-14 Thread Harald Sitter
On Tuesday 14 June 2011 17:42:55 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > On Tuesday 14 June 2011 10:35:49 Harald Sitter wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > > > There are of course more issues to think about when considering > > > using > > > something in our workspace that's de

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-14 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Monday 13 June 2011, Tom Gundersen wrote: > Hi Alex, > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Alex Fiestas wrote: > > For the experts: Does lightDM feel nice as a cross-desktop solution? is > > it good enough? > > I cannot speak to the suitability of lightDM as a KDM replacement. > However, I jus

Re: Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-14 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Tuesday 14 June 2011 10:35:49 Harald Sitter wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:29:45 -0400, Shaun Reich > > wrote: > >> > >> lightDM is also headed by my dear friend Canonical, as is clearly seen. > > > > Serious question: does anyone kno

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-14 Thread Harald Sitter
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Alex Fiestas wrote: > On Monday, June 13, 2011 10:24:22 PM Thomas Lübking wrote: >> Am Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:34:56 +0200 >> >> schrieb Martin Gräßlin : >> > What does power management has to do with KDM? This belongs into >> > powerdevil where to my knowledge it sho

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-14 Thread Harald Sitter
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:29:45 -0400, Shaun Reich > wrote: >> >> lightDM is also headed by my dear friend Canonical, as is clearly seen. > > Serious question: does anyone know if it requires Canonical's copyright > assignment to contribute to

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-14 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > On Monday 13 June 2011 21:10:36 Alex Fiestas wrote: >> So, what are the plans for KDM? can we expect some power management >> integration? and plymouth? > > I don't see what power management and plymouth have to do with KDM. Power > managme

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-14 Thread Tom Gundersen
Hi Alex, On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Alex Fiestas wrote: > For the experts: Does lightDM feel nice as a cross-desktop solution? is it > good enough? I cannot speak to the suitability of lightDM as a KDM replacement. However, I just wanted to point to a couple of discussions about this from

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-13 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:29:45 -0400, Shaun Reich wrote: lightDM is also headed by my dear friend Canonical, as is clearly seen. Serious question: does anyone know if it requires Canonical's copyright assignment to contribute to lightDM? If yes we can stop any further discussion right here IMHO.

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-13 Thread Shaun Reich
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Alex Fiestas wrote: > On Monday, June 13, 2011 04:46:12 PM Shaun Reich wrote: >> Duh. You've got to be joking. Okay, how about you read up on the >> subject..like uhm...in my blog, before criticizing what you clearly >> are clueless about? >> Blink excessively? You

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-13 Thread Shaun Reich
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Thomas Lübking wrote: > Am Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:46:12 -0400 > schrieb Shaun Reich : > > Sorry, I don't read your blog - just did a quick google and thought this > was the best place to get a reliable answer. No problem. Just don't try to critique something until at

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-13 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:02:02 +0200 schrieb Alex Fiestas : > splashy replacement), though I know that KDM without patches doesn't > have a smooth transition. Ah, ok - that part wasn't about power savings at all ;-) > There is a patch from the Fedora team that Got a link? (it probably grabs the fr

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-13 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:46:12 -0400 schrieb Shaun Reich : > Of course *a*. I even went out of my way to specify it in other blog > entries, multiple times iirc. Sorry, I don't read your blog - just did a quick google and thought this was the best place to get a reliable answer. OFF TOPIC

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-13 Thread Alex Fiestas
On Monday, June 13, 2011 10:24:22 PM Thomas Lübking wrote: > Am Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:34:56 +0200 > > schrieb Martin Gräßlin : > > What does power management has to do with KDM? This belongs into > > powerdevil where to my knowledge it should be handled fine, if > > configured correctly. > > I gues

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-13 Thread Alex Fiestas
On Monday, June 13, 2011 09:01:06 PM John Layt wrote: > On Monday 13 Jun 2011 20:34:56 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > What does power management has to do with KDM? This belongs into > > powerdevil where to my knowledge it should be handled fine, if > > configured correctly. > > Not sure, but I wonder

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-13 Thread Shaun Reich
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Thomas Lübking wrote: > > Semi-OT: >> knowledge there is some work going on to bring a Plasma interface to >> KDM which would be a very unique feature. > > This? > http://sreich.blogspot.com/2010/06/kdm-plasma-update.html > > Errr... hopefully *a* - and no

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-13 Thread Shaun Reich
> It seems quite fashionable to start a project on freedesktop.org without > involving KDE and to build it using Gnome tech, then ask us to use it because > "it's a cross-desktop project". Oh yes. Apparently it's better than KDM because it's very cross-desktopy. And better. And stuff. Whatever th

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-13 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:34:56 +0200 schrieb Martin Gräßlin : > What does power management has to do with KDM? This belongs into > powerdevil where to my knowledge it should be handled fine, if > configured correctly. I guess he means: "autosuspension from KDM", ie. w/o being logged in at all - h

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-13 Thread John Layt
On Monday 13 Jun 2011 20:34:56 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > What does power management has to do with KDM? This belongs into powerdevil > where to my knowledge it should be handled fine, if configured correctly. Not sure, but I wonder if Alex means he wasn't logged in so powerdevil couldn't work? > R

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-13 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Martin Gräßlin wrote: > On Monday 13 June 2011 21:10:36 Alex Fiestas wrote: > > Also, since the last Ubuntu Development Summit I started to look into > > lightDM[1] as a possible alternative (at least for my use), I event > > managed to patch kdisplaymanager.cpp to play nice with it. > > To me the

Re: KDM plans and lightDM

2011-06-13 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Monday 13 June 2011 21:10:36 Alex Fiestas wrote: > Hi there > > Today something happened to me again, I turn on my laptop at the begining of > a > meeting and when I needed it the battery was over because the laptop didn't > went to suspension (as I'm used). > > That makes me wonder what a