Proposal: Adding a Plasma Login Manager

[Paul Brown]

On Wednesday, 26 March 2025 10:25:30 Central European Standard Time David 
Edmundson wrote:
> As discussed in Plasma meetings and Akademy's, Oliver Beard and I have
> been working on incubating SDDM into Plasma whilst also providing a
> more coherent Plasma experience.
> 
> This has been implemented as two new repositories:
> 
> https://invent.kde.org/davidedmundson/plasma-login-manager) a
> continuation of SDDM with full history.
> https://invent.kde.org/davidedmundson/plasma-login for front end and KCM
> code.
> 
> It doesn't have to stay that way. The front end was separate because I
> tried using greetd first. Then the backend is separate as it has SDDM
> history imported. We can choose to merge them, or put the front end in
> plasma-workspace. I'm not sure what we want.
> 
> It's not quite at a stage ready for official kdereview, but ready for
> development.
> 
> I've written up a blog post, because social media will pick this up
> this thread anyway, and I wanted to explain some previous discussions
> without rehashing here:
> https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/a-roadmap-for-a-modern-plasma-login-m
> anager/

Hello David, List,

Having read the list of new features on your blog post, there is one more 
feature I would like to propose.

I was talking to a legally blind person that explained that one of the reasons 
I enjoyed Plasma over other desktop environments was the excellent zoom 
feature. He then pointed out that this was not available on the SDDM screen, 
which made it difficult for him to log in.

So that: Can the KWin zoom effect  be made available from Plasma Login too?

Cheers 

Paul

P.S.: I tried to file a wishlist bug report on https://bugs.kde.org, but 
"Plasma Login" is not on there yet.


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