[RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces (forwarded from plasma-devel)

[David Edmundson]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Yuri Chornoivan <yurchor at ukr.net> wrote:
> написане Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:58:57 +0300, David Edmundson
> <david at davidedmundson.co.uk>:
>
>
>> As you're all probably aware I've been working on a new login manager
>> for KDE [1]. Currently known as LightDM-KDE, named as it is based on
>> the display manager backend LightDM [2].
>>
>
> <snip>
>
>
>> I'm sure many of you will have questions "why was this decision
>> made?", so I've written out my design rationale on all big topics here
>> [4] I've put it as a link partly because it's more for documentation
>> than for discussion as it's all in the past and partly because this
>> email is already really really long :)
>>
>> [1] https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/base/lightdm
>> [2] http://launchpad.net/lightdm
>> [3] http://http://www.sharpley.org.uk/blog/lightdm-0_3 ,
>> http://http://www.sharpley.org.uk/blog/lightdm-0_2,
>> http://www.sharpley.org.uk/lightdm-google-authentication,
>> http://www.sharpley.org.uk/blog/an-update-on-lightdm-kde
>> [4] http://static.davidedmundson.co.uk/lightdm_design_rationale.html
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> David Edmundson
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Neither LigthDM, nor its KCM has any documentation (but the latter has
> "Help" button for some reason).
>
> Are there any plans to write some documentation on how to write a theme, use
> KCM, etc.?
>

You're absolute right. I'm a typical naughty developer.

I would make sure they existed before merging actually happened.
(now filed: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305637)

> Thanks in advance for your answer.
>
> Best regards,
> Yuri