From kde-core-devel Wed Jun 15 16:33:37 2011 From: Alex Fiestas Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:33:37 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: KDM plans and lightDM Message-Id: <14550255.cULofhSIIa () minibad> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=130815567701849 On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 05:43:44 PM Martin Gräßlin wrote: > On Wednesday 15 June 2011 12:22:10 Alex Fiestas wrote: > > But right now: (Once again this is what I see from outside:) > > -KDM developers have no plans > > This seems incorrect, given Shaun's work on Plasma - and after the > discussion in this thread this should be known by now. Having somebody working on something doesn't make it a plan. > > -KDM maintainer has no time > > Wouldn't it be an idea to get manpower on KDM? Maybe a better idea than to > invest time in lightDM... Maybe, though lightDM work is almost only about high level stuff, for some people that's funniest. > So my suggestion: let's stop discussing about lightDM and evaluate what we > have and what we need. Let's do it properly and honestly. Then let's look > what can be done in KDM and how we can shuffle resources there. And only > iff that does not work, let's discuss a different DM. And also let's think > about the future. Developing a new DM for X when we are about to switch to > Wayland makes me want to move my palm against my head ;-) > > To me this whole issue was unknown until the thread was started and that > most likely means that it has not been raised on the appropriate > mailinglists. I don't know if it has been raised towards Ossi, but if he > does not have the time there is always the option to bring the discussion > to the plasma mailing list (where you can mostly find all Workspace > interested developers) or on this list here. Though as it is workspace > related, Plasma should be the first choice. Agreed, maybe we can organize a Microsoft Skype meeting or something? IRC has little bandwidth for these discussions imho. Cheers.