minutes Monday Plasma hangout

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday, November 4, 2013 13:19:37 Martin Klapetek wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:
> > Martin:
> > - Splash architecture: splash should probably go into SDDM, own process is
> > too
> > wasteful
> 
> While I agree that own process can be too wasteful, putting it inside SDDM
> would mean putting it either into all login managers or having a fallback
> solution for non-SDDM distros like Kubuntu. Both mean added maintenance
> (and very possibly duplicated code too?).

It can be provided by whatever DM is used. Saying “we’re going to make the 
user experience worse” just because we can’t/won’t integrate with necessary 
systems is not sensible. Our users should never suffer because we can’t figure 
out the technology, and having a separate process for the splash screen slows 
down startup times, introduces more screen transitions and means more 
maintenance for us.

The worst case scenario is that users do not get a splash screen. This is 
similar to a growing number of features which don’t work (at all or as well) 
without required system components.

SDDM and LightDM, btw, use the same D-Bus interface, and that’s not an 
accident, so if there is needed DBus communication I’m sure we can continue 
that trend.

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Aaron J. Seigo