On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:19 AM, Harald Sitter <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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? > Sure, I can take a look at it tomorrow. > > > 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 >
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