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

[Martin Gräßlin]

> On Dec. 10, 2015, 12:03 a.m., Rex Dieter wrote:
> > I (still) think it should be renamed and Wayland mentioned *somewhere*.  Not all login managers distinguish wayland sessions like sddm does.
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> David Edmundson wrote:
>     Though if you do SDDM will say:
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>     Plasma (wayland) (wayland)
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> Rex Dieter wrote:
>     If need be, yes.
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> Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
>     AFAIR, SDDM is the only one officially supported by Plasma. It's not really acceptable that it has visual regressions.
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> Martin Klapetek wrote:
>     I agree with Rex though, imo it should be up to the desktop to
>     provide the "wayland" string in its file rather than sddm itself.
>     Our stuff shouldn't make assumptions about its visual representations.
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> Rex Dieter wrote:
>     to put another way, some downstreams will need to patch in a wayland identifier (fedora included), i'd rather that not be the case

I just think there should not be a "Wayland" at all - neither an "X11". It's an extremly technical name no real user will be able to understand. So let's take a step back and think how we want to call it.


- Martin


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On Dec. 8, 2015, 3:09 p.m., Martin Klapetek wrote:
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> (Updated Dec. 8, 2015, 3:09 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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