[OT] KDM No Longer In KDE ?!?

[Nick Boyce <nick@glimmer.adsl24.co.uk>]

Sorry - this isn't strictly a Debian KDE question, but I figure somebody
here will know something about this.

In the latest KDE Commit-Digest (Issue 322, dated 12th.Jan.2014) [1] the
following very terse and (to me) bizarre statement is made :

  "KDM has been removed ... KDM goes the way of the Dodo.

  It's exactly, to the day, 6 years ago that we released "KDE 4.0",
  while this is of course entirely unrelated to this commit, let's
  celebrate this anniversary with the deletion of kdm from
  kde-workspace."

There is no explanation for this, no clarification about a replacement
of some sort.  A quick bit of googling for such terms as "KDM removal
[why]" reveals nothing. Can anyone here enlighten me please ?

I'm just trying to stay educated :)

[1] http://commit-digest.org/issues/2014-01-12/

Cheers,
Nick
-- 
Never FDISK after midnight