On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 04:45:04PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: > Instead of emotional outbursts, please rather document the reasons you > don't like mdkkdm, as others have done on the cooker wiki. Maybe the only > reason you detest mdkkdm is that you can't log in as root by default, and > if they change the default to be kdm, maybe they will disable root login > there by default too (since it really is best to prevent this, and force > users into good habits, although of course you can change this if you like > your bad habits).
As far as I know mdkkdm doesn't let you type in a user name (I haven't tried it in a long time). That's the one thing that bugs me. I prefer to keep the list of users displayed down but there are some users that I want to log in as from time to time (e.g. my test user). What I've never really understood is if they wanted to simplify the DM, why didn't they modify kdm to have such a mode, contribute it upstream to the KDE people, and then set it as default. Anyone that doesn't like it can simply change the mode in kcontrol... It would avoid a lot of the complaining that has happened, IMHO. While I think mdkkdm is silly, I'm not demanding that they take it out. I'm more than happy to change it after the install... -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you." -- Nietzsche
