Review Request 126275: Make the "Plasma (Wayland)" xsession file actually say "Plasma (Wayland)"

David Edmundson david at davidedmundson.co.uk
Tue Dec 8 14:15:55 UTC 2015



> On Dec. 8, 2015, 6:51 a.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > -2 for another reason: the display system should not be a user facing part. That's a technical detail which will go away in a year or two. Do you want to rename it back to Plasma then? If at all we should change the X11 session to have the name adjusted.
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> David Edmundson wrote:
>     If you think that, why provide the .desktop file at all when it's not ready?
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> Sebastian Kügler wrote:
>     I think as long as Wayland is the experimental option, it should say so. The specialization makes it easier to recognize the stable/X11 session.

What I don't get is why we're installing this file by default at all. 
We *know* that without a kdeinit patch everything freezes. So we've just added an option that we *know* will only give a black screen. That's both pointless and setting a bad impression.


- David


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On Dec. 8, 2015, 2:09 p.m., Martin Klapetek wrote:
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> (Updated Dec. 8, 2015, 2:09 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Repository: plasma-workspace
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> Description
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> The commit/review says it's displayed as "Plasma (Wayland)"
> but the name is just "Plasma", making it confusing in login
> manager.
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> Diffs
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>   plasmawayland.desktop.cmake c5d5757 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126275/diff/
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> Testing
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> Sddm now clearly shows which "Plasma" is Waylandplasma.
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> Thanks,
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> Martin Klapetek
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