On 04/16/2017 08:47 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2017-04-15 11:51, Simon Lees wrote:
This thread is about openSUSE defaults. I don't care about KDE being default if at least the displaymanager is usable to login and to select another WM. I've never had any problems with kdm but our default sddm setup is painful and unusable for many use cases.
sddm is only the default if you choose to install kde in the installer, if you choose Gnome you will get gdm and if you install any other desktop (excluding icewm) you will get lightdm as the default. We don't have a distro default display manager.
What if one installs all desktops?
There should be one display manager that works well with any desktop and be installed be default always.
All 3 should work well with any desktop if they don't please report a bug. Its more about the dependencies each pull in and more consistent branding as much as anything else, for example on the machine I was messing with wayland on I am using gdm, but I don't think i've ever launched Gnome on it, for most of my other machines I have lightdm. The way this is implemented hasn't been finalized for 42.3 due to the new desktop selection, but it will be something like, if you select the Gnome radio button you will get gdm, if you select the kde radio button you will get sddm and if you select other then a different desktop pattern you will get lightdm (if you select other and no desktop you will get nothing). The fact that selecting Gnome uses GDM and selecting KDE uses sddm is completely up to the choice of the Gnome/KDE maintainers, As the enlightenment maintainer I chose that if you only install enlightenment you will get lightdm by default as it pulls in less gnome/kde deps then others. It is only recommended so you as the user may choose to install something else and use that instead. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B