On Monday 04 of May 2015 14:33:04 Wolfgang Bauer wrote:
Just my 2 cents here, for the moment...
Am Montag, 4. Mai 2015, 17:03:57 schrieb Max Lin:
1) kdm still there! and since DISPLAYMANAGER param doesn't change, system is launch kdm indeed.
Well, IMHO we cannot just replace kdm yet. SDDM still misses a lot of features, especially regarding remote login, which is non-existent there. See the TODO list: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/TODO I agree here that sddm can't obsolete kdm.
That doesn't mean I'm against SSDM for default, if it works. It doesn't really work on 13.2 (which I am still using), in particular logout doesn't work. But as I understand it, this is fixed with a newer version of gnome-keyring- pam. AFAIK, correct.
2) per above, if user enabled autologin, kdm may bring user to whatever desktop session after update, because kdebase4-session got removed already, and if more than one desktop session(eg. icewm) installed there, it may boot into wrong session than what you expect - plasma5 session. So I think we need a better way to handle update.
Yes, /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager needs to be updated. No idea how to handle this though.
Maybe replace "kde-plasma" with "plasma5" (or whatever) with sed in a postinstall script of sddm? I'm not sure this matters though, the problem is more AFAICS, missing session desktop file (as plasma5-session obsoletes kdebase4-session). We will get this fixed somehow though. =)
* Improve sddm: sddm may better to handle with AUTOLOGIN, the installer provides a autologin option there, but it will not work with sddm.
That should be done anyway, I suppose. We need a patch here IMHO (like for every other DM), we cannot just ignore the old way. Yep, i should come up with a patch today to handle autologin user...
Cheers, Hrvoje
Kind Regards, Wolfgang