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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDM plans and lightDM
From:       Nuno Pinheiro <nuno.pinheiro () kdab ! com>
Date:       2011-06-15 16:39:55
Message-ID: 201106151739.56345.nuno.pinheiro () kdab ! com
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A Quarta, 15 de Junho de 2011 17:11:27 Martin Gräßlin você escreveu:
> On Wednesday 15 June 2011 17:46:08 Alex Fiestas wrote:
> > On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 05:37:14 PM todd rme wrote:
> > > There are apparently people willing to implement KDE support in
> > > LightDM, so why don't they instead improve KDM?  Why should they be
> > > putting their effort into an immature project instead of a mature one?
> > 
> > Because they're motivated to work on LightDM and not in KDM, new is
> > always attractive.
> 
> Of course everybody is free to spend his time on whatever he wants. But  I
> consider this as kind of a pity given that it looks like
> a) GNOME won't accept lightDM
> b) KDE Plasma won't accept lightDM
> 
> which renders lightDM to be used only by Ubuntu and not even by Kubuntu if
> they stick to their "we ship what upstream ships".
> 
> I think it would be pretty sad if the workspace community would become
> split due to such issues.
> 
> And just as something to remind: there was a time when Lubos seriously
> thought about dropping KWin in favor of Compiz, because it was the new
> cool kid on the block. Look at what we have today and where Compiz is
> today (including their history). Would that have been a wise decision to
> drop KWin? Not always is cool and new better than old, stable and feature
> rich.

+++++1
 
> Cheers
> Martin

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Nuno Pinheiro | nuno.pinheiro@kdab.com | UI Designer 
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, a KDAB Group company
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stable and feature</p> <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; \
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</p> <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; \
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">&gt; Cheers</p> <p style=" \
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text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">&gt; Martin</p> <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; \
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text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br /></p> <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; \
margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">-- \
</p> <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; \
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Nuno Pinheiro | nuno.pinheiro@kdab.com \
| UI Designer </p> <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; \
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Klarälvdalens \
Datakonsult AB, a KDAB Group company</p> <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; \
margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">KDAB \
- Qt Experts - Platform-independent software solutions</p></body></html>



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