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



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