On Thursday 09 June 2011 20:57:04 David Edmundson wrote: > For the KDE side of things I intend to have a QML powered greeter > engine. This will display any QML file as the greeter, and provide all > the linking to the LightDM daemon and general models and such. > > This enables anyone to build a login theme without any compiling, and > makes it completely safe for the end user. > I've outlined my goals/design/reasoning in more detail here: > http://static.davidedmundson.co.uk/lightdm_goals.txt
Sounds awesome. I'd like to propose two goals though: a) accessible b) scalibility (should work well with ldap setups with >10 users etc.) > There is also a shiny picture of what my demo greeter looks like here: > http://static.davidedmundson.co.uk/lightdm_2.png. Note the use of > plasma widgets. > It's not finished, but it shows what I'm doing. I imagine kubuntu will > want to Kubuntu-ify it a bit. If anyone has any designs let me know. Mockup by sheytan: http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/7461/basegi.jpg I believe this would be a good default. Something I never liked about the current KDM default is that you cannot click somewhere to select your user, but instead had to know your user name *eeek*. To that extent the user name login box perhaps should be non-editable if you selected a user and only become editable on click. Just a random thought though. > This is in development here: > http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=scratch%2Fdavidedmundson%2Flightdmqmlgreeter.git&; > a=summary There is a demo theme here: > http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=scratch%2Fdavidedmundson%2Flightdmdemogreeter.git > &a=summary > > It requires the latest master of lightdm to compile (lp:lightdm). Could someone get this in a PPA please or perhaps the neon people could get weekly builds going? > I've made a bit of a start on the KDM settings module, but I don't > know any policyKit so will get stuck with that shortly. I'm working on > kde's git repos as I want this to be an upstream thing, though the > general feedback on my blog was fairly negative so I've not approached > anyone yet. With polkit we can help. I think just about everyone in the programming part of the team had done polkit at one point or another. As for the comments: you should beware of how important they are. They neither reflect common opinion nor particularly technical reasoning (especially the ones on your post from a quick glance). The only two valuable concerns I noticed were: supreme PAM support and enterprise readiness. Both things that should entirely be secured before going anywhere with LightDM IMHO. > Moving forwards, I think I should take discussion about KDE and > LightDM off the kubuntu ML and maybe onto the LightDM ML? I'm not sure > if I'm bugging people. I also need some opinions from you and to get > some more people on board. If you feel it makes more sense there... Having stuff here is not particularly distrubing though, especially since we get free status updates that way :P What sort of people do you need? regards, Harald -- kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
