KDE logout options with F8

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Wed Oct 31 15:41:10 UTC 2007


Rex Dieter wrote:
> Christopher Aillon wrote:
> 
>> See the work that William Jon Mcann is doing upstream right now to help
>> get to the goal of a more generic login manager.  However, because we
>> aren't aiming to be bug for bug compatible with KDM (we're not even
>> aiming to be bug for bug compat with GDM), the KDM upstream guys are not
>> interested in participating.  Maybe instead of fighting within Fedora,
>> we can redirect the discussion to convince the KDM guys that this is a
>> good idea.
> 
> Any references, pointers, mailing lists for the aforementioned work would be
> appreciated.  

I don't know precisely where, I'm only aware of it happening.  I believe 
that there's some code checked into gdm HEAD right now.  That might be a 
good starting point.  mclasen or halfline probably know more about this.

> fwiw, kde's kdm mainainer can be a bit... um... stubborn, but I'm certain
> his heart is in the right place.  I'll do what I can to push, pull, nudge
> things in the right direction.

Cool, I think all parties involved would be grateful.




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