Re: sddm versus kdm
On Monday 03 August 2015 00:12:37 David Baron wrote:
> On Sunday 02 August 2015 13:48:57 Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> > On 08/02/2015 12:18 PM, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> > > On 2015-08-02, Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> wrote:
> > >> For a KDE user, what do people think are the strengths and weaknesses
> > >> of the two managers?
> > >
> > > KDM is dead upstream, SDDM is alive.
> > >
> > > I think that's the simplest way of summing it up.
> > >
> > > /Sune
> >
> > Sune that's the second time you have posted that, I don't view it as
> > being helpful. It seems to me that KDM is only missing a systemsetting
> > module/plugin in order to work properly with plasma 5.
>
A display manager is a security-sensitive piece of software, an obvious point
of attack. If it doesn't have upstream support, you should not expect security
problems to be fixed. So I think Sune is right: Upstream support is a critical
feature for a display manager. If KDM doesn't have it, that's reason enough to
drop it and move on.
Shai.
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