On Monday 03 August 2015 00:12:37 David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 02 August 2015 13:48:57 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > On 08/02/2015 12:18 PM, Sune Vuorela wrote: > > > On 2015-08-02, Gary Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> For a KDE user, what do people think are the strengths and weaknesses > > >> of the two managers? > > > > > > KDM is dead upstream, SDDM is alive. > > > > > > I think that's the simplest way of summing it up. > > > > > > /Sune > > > > Sune that's the second time you have posted that, I don't view it as > > being helpful. It seems to me that KDM is only missing a systemsetting > > module/plugin in order to work properly with plasma 5. >
A display manager is a security-sensitive piece of software, an obvious point of attack. If it doesn't have upstream support, you should not expect security problems to be fixed. So I think Sune is right: Upstream support is a critical feature for a display manager. If KDM doesn't have it, that's reason enough to drop it and move on. Shai. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
