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Subject: Re: [RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)
From: Thomas_Lübking <thomas.luebking () gmail ! com>
Date: 2012-08-27 23:17:03
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Am 28.08.2012, 00:25 Uhr, schrieb Martin Sandsmark
<martin.sandsmark@kde.org>:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 01:58:57PM +0100, David Edmundson wrote:
>> Features LightDM-KDE has that KDM does not:
>> - Guest support login
>
> What does the DM have to do with this?
David Edmundson schrieb
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Thomas Lübking wrote:
>> Sorry, this is certainly too much in details, but what is that
>>
>>> Features LightDM-KDE has that KDM does not:
>>> - Guest support login
>> supposed to be?
>> I mean, either there's a guest account on the machine or there's not.
>> If you intend to sell a DM which runtime injects accounts or so, you
>> just
>> lost a customer ;-P
> It "injects" accounts. The part that does this is mostly in the
> downstream packaging. Also you can uncheck the box "allow guest" in
> the GUII don't /think/ it's on by default in our code, but Ubuntu
> packaging
> turns it on.
To me it sounds as if the package contains a postinstall script to
"useradd guest" for a pwdless login.
I cannot say to really appreciate such "feature" :-\
>> - Ability to make customisations such as changing the background
>> without having to edit XML
>
> Isn't the kdm config file just a simple .ini file?
He's talking about the xml greeter.
Cheers,
Thomas
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