On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 19:54, Shift wrote: > Le Samedi 1 Février 2003 02:37, Lonnie Borntreger a écrit : > > KDM "branding" can be accomplished with a simple kdmrc change to use a > > Mandrake specific background image along with the Mandrake "star" logo. > > No change needs to be made to KDM itself. > > Restart your X server you will see that it is not just a start and a > background but a entirally new DM. > I am not against that but PLEASE, DON'T MODIFY KDM and MAKE A SEPARATE PACKAGE > (drakdm ?)
I wasn't arguing that the new KDM was good, I was saying they could have gotten "branding" without patching KDM - as an argument against the other poster that said this was just about "branding". But, I won't see the new login manager, since I saw other posts about it, and stayed on kdebase-3.1-5mdk (the new kdm is in 6mdk). > Modifying a big part of another project is not a patch but a FORK. > It is very bad and it is against free software philosophy (IMHO) Agreed. > > However, a login screen will not make me change distros, but it may > > cause me to change login managers - but that is why I like Linux, if I > > don't like some design decision, I can always make a change myself. > > I want too change DM too but they had REPLACE kdm with this HORRIBLE DM with > Mandrake stars everywhere :(( So use GDM. You can use GDM to login to KDE - unless they changed that also. I do agree that it should at least be a new binary in kdebase instead of a change to the existing KDM - or an entirely new package. TTFN, Lonnie Borntreger