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

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimarts, 28 d'agost de 2012, a les 01:17:03, Thomas Lübking va escriure:
> Am 28.08.2012, 00:25 Uhr, schrieb Martin Sandsmark
> 
> <martin.sandsmark at 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" :-\

And as been already said nobody is forcing you to use it, you can disable the 
feature. 

Albert

> 
> >>  - 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