Fwd: Logind Requirements for Future Plasma

[Eric Hameleers]

On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, David Edmundson wrote:

> Packagers,
>
> Martin's email reminded me of one I need to send on behalf of our
> powermanagement team.
>
> For Plasma 5.5, (not the current release, nor the next release, but the one
> after that) we will be having a runtime dependency on a logind
> implementation, dropping our legacy support.
>
> Given there are existing maintained abstraction layers out there it doesn't
> make sense for us to also support our own abstraction layer in our code.
> It is an area of many bugs in power management and user switching, and it's
> in everyone's interest to simplify it so we all use maintained code paths.
>
> This means either:
> Systemd
>
> LoginKit (logind compatible api on top of ConsoleKit2);
>
> systemd-shim (limited support for some of the systemd apis);
>
> systembsd (a reimplementation of the systemd apis portable to BSD
> distributions).
>
> If logind is not available many features will cease to work, notable
> current logind users are:
>
> * suspend/hibernate
> * user switching
>   - session listing in lock screen, krunner, actual switching
> * new user manager KCM
> * lock screen
> * suspend inhibitions
> * bluedevil save/restore on suspend
> * kwin wayland
>
> If there are any problems when using one of the shims, let us know and I'll
> be happy to help out. We encourage distros that will use a shim to test
> early so we have time to make sure we don't have any problems.
>
> David

Aiming for consolekit2/loginkit here. But I will not start 
experimenting with that until after Slackware's next stable release 
hits the shelves.

Cheers, Eric

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