Proposal: Adding a Plasma Login Manager

[David Edmundson]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM Paul Brown <paul.brown at kde.org> wrote:
>
> 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?

Yep.
Maybe not on day 1, but it should be doable.

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

Yeah, we're not incubated into KDE/Plasma just yet.

It will be at some point.