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.
> 
> 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
> 
> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     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.
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> Martin Klapetek wrote:
>     > It's an extremly technical name no real user will be able to understand
>     
>     True, but for the time being, a wayland session is an extremely
>     technical thing no real user should use. So I would say it's fine
>     for now to be technical.
>     
>     Nevertheless this will have to be taken up with sddm later if you
>     don't want "wayland" to appear there at all.
> 
> Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
>     Let's call it "Plasma Next" ;)

Next/Legacy is I think the approach to go. Something like "Plasma on experimental windowing system" and then in future "Plasma on legacy windowing system". It should be named better of course, just not Wayland.


- 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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