Dropping Base X group? [Was: Re: KDE logout options with F8]

[Christopher Aillon]

On 01/10/2008 09:57 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Patrice Dumas <pertusus <at> free.fr> writes:
>> device since X is all about hiding the hardware. I am currently
>> discussing that with the xdm upstream maintainer, did you contact the
>> kde upstream for the patch inclusion?
> 
> Yes: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147790
> 
> The KDM maintainer rejected it. :-( For pretty unconvincing reasons at that: he 
> doesn't agree with the design (but it's the one which is advocated by the 
> ConsoleKit developers and which would allow implementing true fast user 
> switching in KDM later) and he doesn't want GPL (as opposed to X11-licensed) 
> code in the KDM backend (which makes no sense because the frontend is already 
> GPL and because merges back to XDM aren't going to happen anyway, because as 
> you said, the code has diverged a lot). (Part of the code is GPL because it's 
> derived from the GDM implementation.)
> 
> That said, several other distributions picked it up, for example in OpenSUSE, 
> it was applied to their packages by none other than Dirk Müller, the upstream 
> KDE release manager.

This makes me feel all warm and tingly about KDE...