KDM plans and lightDM

[Alex Fiestas]

On Monday, June 13, 2011 09:01:06 PM John Layt wrote:
> On Monday 13 Jun 2011 20:34:56 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > What does power management has to do with KDM? This belongs into
> > powerdevil where to my knowledge it should be handled fine, if
> > configured correctly.
> 
> Not sure, but I wonder if Alex means he wasn't logged in so powerdevil
> couldn't work?
Exactly.
> > Rhethorical question: how can it be "cross-desktop" if KDE has not been
> > involved in the development effort so far? Who is the "cross-desktop",
> > who is behind it?
> 
> It seems quite fashionable to start a project on freedesktop.org without
> involving KDE and to build it using Gnome tech, then ask us to use it
> because "it's a cross-desktop project".  How are they supposed to know what
> our requirements are without asking us?  What are the criteria for getting
> fd.o hosting/blessing these days?
> 
> Note I don't know if this is the case for this project, I haven't heard
> anything about it before, but I may not be on the right lists. 
> Enlightenment gratefully received.
Well, David Edmundson is working on a Qt/KDE greeter, so far it has support 
for QML and is looking good.