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Originally posted by Hirager View PostThe difference is, LightDM is cross-platform. Personally, I think replacement of all other login managers by this LightDM is a great idea.
The blog post from Matthew Garrett is correct in that regard that it makes no sense to replace a well maintained, fully working display manager with something LightDM-based. LightDM is indeed relatively new code. Simply throwing everything out just for fun is crazy. Granted, it's ironic to read that from a GNOME person, because the GNOME project did such stupid things several times (PulseAudio, GStreamer, Empathy). ;-)
In case of KDE the premise is entirely different: KDM – while working well – is relatively unmaintained and full of legacy technologies. An entirely new front-end (or Greeter in LightDM terminology) using QML/Plasma would be needed to be written anyway and – as Matthew Garrett also wrote – LightDM makes it easy to start from scratch.
From KDE’s POV using LightDM makes a lot of sense: The only required workload is the new Greeter. The rest is managed by other people.
KDM can easily be kept until LightDM-KDE is ready (incl. BSD ports).
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Originally posted by Awesomeness View PostLightDM is currently not cross-platform. Or have you seen a port to FreeBSD or any other non-Linux OS anywhere? LightDM is ? within the Linux ecosystem ? cross-desktop but that's different from cross-platform.
The blog post from Matthew Garrett is correct in that regard that it makes no sense to replace a well maintained, fully working display manager with something LightDM-based. LightDM is indeed relatively new code. Simply throwing everything out just for fun is crazy. Granted, it's ironic to read that from a GNOME person, because the GNOME project did such stupid things several times (PulseAudio, GStreamer, Empathy). ;-)
In case of KDE the premise is entirely different: KDM ? while working well ? is relatively unmaintained and full of legacy technologies. An entirely new front-end (or Greeter in LightDM terminology) using QML/Plasma would be needed to be written anyway and ? as Matthew Garrett also wrote ? LightDM makes it easy to start from scratch.
From KDE?s POV using LightDM makes a lot of sense: The only required workload is the new Greeter. The rest is managed by other people.
KDM can easily be kept until LightDM-KDE is ready (incl. BSD ports).
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