Guest logins, (was Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel))

2012-08-29 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am 29.08.2012, 03:21 Uhr, schrieb Harald Sitter sit...@kde.org: On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Thomas Lübking thomas.luebk...@gmail.com wrote: but I'm willing to be enlightened about the striking advances of this integration. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Intrepid/GuestAccount

Re: Guest logins, (was Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel))

2012-08-29 Thread David Edmundson
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Thomas Lübking thomas.luebk...@gmail.com wrote: Am 29.08.2012, 03:21 Uhr, schrieb Harald Sitter sit...@kde.org: On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Thomas Lübking thomas.luebk...@gmail.com wrote: but I'm willing to be enlightened about the striking advances of

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-27 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am 28.08.2012, 00:25 Uhr, schrieb Martin Sandsmark martin.sandsm...@kde.org: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 01:58:57PM +0100, David Edmundson wrote: Features LightDM-KDE has that KDM does not: - Guest support login What does the DM have to do with this? David Edmundson schrieb On Thu, Aug 23,

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-27 Thread Martin Sandsmark
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 01:17:03AM +0200, Thomas Lübking wrote: To me it sounds as if the package contains a postinstall script to useradd guest for a pwdless login. I cannot say to really appreciate such feature :-\ Uh, that sounds kind of bad for a DM, yes. He's talking about the xml

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-27 Thread Shaun Reich
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Martin Sandsmark martin.sandsm...@kde.org wrote: Now I'm really confused, isn't the wallpaper just set in /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc? not if you're in themed mode. in which case the theme specifies it, afik -- Shaun Reich, KDE Software Developer (kde.org)

Re: Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-23 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Wednesday 22 August 2012 20:44:00 Sune Vuorela wrote: From my personal view and as a packager, I would say we only need *one* display manager in the workspace. So, if lightdm comes, then KDM must go in my opinion. No, LightDM-KDE and KDM solve different problems. KDM is a full-blown display

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-23 Thread David Edmundson
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Albert Astals Cid aa...@kde.org wrote: El Dimecres, 22 d'agost de 2012, a les 13:58:57, David Edmundson va escriure: As you're all probably aware I've been working on a new login manager for KDE [1]. Currently known as LightDM-KDE, named as it is based on the

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-23 Thread David Edmundson
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Yuri Chornoivan yurc...@ukr.net wrote: написане Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:58:57 +0300, David Edmundson da...@davidedmundson.co.uk: As you're all probably aware I've been working on a new login manager for KDE [1]. Currently known as LightDM-KDE, named as it is

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-23 Thread Andras Mantia
On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 01:58:57 PM David Edmundson wrote: - a big refactor (see branch big_refactor) Without going into other details: what would be the reason to merge LightDM *now*, if you have a big refactoring undergoing? Andras

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-23 Thread David Edmundson
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Andras Mantia aman...@kde.org wrote: On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 01:58:57 PM David Edmundson wrote: - a big refactor (see branch big_refactor) Without going into other details: what would be the reason to merge LightDM *now*, if you have a big refactoring

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-23 Thread David Edmundson
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Matthias Klumpp matth...@tenstral.net wrote: 2012/8/22 Albert Astals Cid aa...@kde.org: El Dimecres, 22 d'agost de 2012, a les 13:58:57, David Edmundson va escriure: As you're all probably aware I've been working on a new login manager for KDE [1]. Currently

[RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-22 Thread David Edmundson
As you're all probably aware I've been working on a new login manager for KDE [1]. Currently known as LightDM-KDE, named as it is based on the display manager backend LightDM [2]. I've just released 0.3, and it's mature enough that Kubuntu are choosing to have it as their default display manager

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-22 Thread Yuri Chornoivan
написане Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:58:57 +0300, David Edmundson da...@davidedmundson.co.uk: As you're all probably aware I've been working on a new login manager for KDE [1]. Currently known as LightDM-KDE, named as it is based on the display manager backend LightDM [2]. snip I'm sure many of

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-22 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2012-08-22, David Edmundson da...@davidedmundson.co.uk wrote: release. This isn't a decision forced by Canonical, they just think it's better, though obviously it helps that the backend is already tested on Ubuntu. Other distributions have also expressed an interest, Is LightDM a canonical

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-22 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dimecres, 22 d'agost de 2012, a les 13:58:57, David Edmundson va escriure: As you're all probably aware I've been working on a new login manager for KDE [1]. Currently known as LightDM-KDE, named as it is based on the display manager backend LightDM [2]. How's the upstream of ligthdm? Have

Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

2012-08-22 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2012/8/22 Albert Astals Cid aa...@kde.org: El Dimecres, 22 d'agost de 2012, a les 13:58:57, David Edmundson va escriure: As you're all probably aware I've been working on a new login manager for KDE [1]. Currently known as LightDM-KDE, named as it is based on the display manager backend