LightDM-KDE

[Rohan Garg]

Tomasz Dudzik (sheytan) made a mock up of the new theme over on his blog :
http://madsheytan.blogspot.com/2011/06/lightdm-makieta.html . You might want
to check that out for some very cool ideas.
Regards
Rohan Garg



On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Harald Sitter <apachelogger at ubuntu.com>wrote:

> On Friday 10 June 2011 13:02:57 David Edmundson wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 2:19 AM, Harald Sitter <apachelogger at ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 09 June 2011 20:57:04 David Edmundson wrote:
> > >> For the KDE side of things I intend to have a QML powered greeter
> > >> engine. This will display any QML file as the greeter, and provide all
> > >> the linking to the LightDM daemon and general models and such.
> > >>
> > >> This enables anyone to build a login theme without any compiling, and
> > >> makes it completely safe for the end user.
> > >> I've outlined my goals/design/reasoning in more detail here:
> > >> http://static.davidedmundson.co.uk/lightdm_goals.txt
> > >
> > > Sounds awesome.
> > > I'd like to propose two goals though:
> > > a) accessible
> > > b) scalibility (should work well with ldap setups with >10 users etc.)
> >
> > Completely agreed.
> >
> > Part b should mostly be being handled by the LightDM daemon (Robert's
> > part) so if it's good enough for Ubuntu it will work for us.
>
> Right, however it also needs UI considerations. Like the theme sheytan
> presented will entirely break with many users. This needs to be handled in
> the
> UI/QLDM. Like having two separate greater themes, one that scales and one
> that
> does not. If a theme creator does not provide one of the two one could just
> fall back to the default.
>
> Ideally I suppose this would actually be automatically detected. I reckon a
> user list like the one in sheytan's mockup could be checked for too many
> entries to fit on screen (scrollbar?) so that the greeter automatically
> switches to the scalable version.
>
> However this might have awkward side effects, like if people switch around
> resolution alot, they get different experiences every time. An example here
> would be if you have a laptop and a dual screen setup at home. Depending on
> how this is handled it might well be that then resolution for KDM differs
> greatly between dual-screen and laptop-only.
> So, perhaps the automation is a bad idea. But definitely a config option
> should
> be provided.
>
> Simplest approach is to just have a scalable versioned theme/greeter that
> can
> be selected. Not too nice though as a theme creator who wants to provide
> both
> experiences needs to create two themes. ;)
>
> > >> There is also a shiny picture of what my demo greeter looks like here:
> > >> http://static.davidedmundson.co.uk/lightdm_2.png. Note the use of
> > >> plasma widgets.
> > >> It's not finished, but it shows what I'm doing. I imagine kubuntu will
> > >> want to Kubuntu-ify it a bit. If anyone has any designs let me know.
> > >
> > > Mockup by sheytan: http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/7461/basegi.jpg
> > > I believe this would be a good default. Something I never liked about
> > > the
> > > current KDM default is that you cannot click somewhere to select your
> > > user, but instead had to know your user name *eeek*.
> > > To that extent the user name login box perhaps should be non-editable
> if
> > > you selected a user and only become editable on click. Just a random
> > > thought though.
> >
> > A users list is next on the agenda. All the stuff is in the library
> > and engine to do it. Should be done by Tuesday.
>
> Awesome \o/
>
> > >> This is in development here:
> > >>
> http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=scratch%2Fdavidedmundson%2Flightdmqmlgreete
> > >> r.git& a=summary There is a demo theme here:
> > >>
> http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=scratch%2Fdavidedmundson%2Flightdmdemogreet
> > >> er.git &a=summary
> > >>
> > >> It requires the latest master of lightdm to compile (lp:lightdm).
> > >
> > > Could someone get this in a PPA please or perhaps the neon people could
> > > get weekly builds going?
> >
> > Not me, I hate packaging. It's waaaaaaaaaay too difficult.
>
> You'll be glad to hear that there are efforts going on to make it as simple
> as
> running one command ;)
>
> http://pkgme.net/
>
> > > As for the comments: you should beware of how important they are. They
> > > neither reflect common opinion nor particularly technical reasoning
> > > (especially the ones on your post from a quick glance). The only two
> > > valuable concerns I noticed were: supreme PAM support and enterprise
> > > readiness. Both things that should entirely be secured before going
> > > anywhere with LightDM IMHO.
> > >
> > >> Moving forwards, I think I should take discussion about KDE and
> > >> LightDM off the kubuntu ML and maybe onto the LightDM ML? I'm not sure
> > >> if I'm bugging people. I also need some opinions from you and to get
> > >> some more people on board.
> > >
> > > If you feel it makes more sense there... Having stuff here is not
> > > particularly distrubing though, especially since we get free status
> > > updates that way :P
> > >
> > > What sort of people do you need?
> >
> > I know from the past that one-man projects tend to fail eventually, if
> > I get busy or die in a catastrophic accident there needs to be people
> > who can continue the work. Mostly I just need people to follow the
> > development to tell me if I'm doing something stupid.
>
> IMHO the best solution here would be to make it at least a KDE extragear
> project, if not workspace. A lot of people watch commits and tell you when
> you
> are doing something wrong (I prefer pizza and telly though :P).
>
> > Also accessibility is on our goal list (as of now) I know nothing
> > about that. What stuff is important in a login manager?
> >  - Choosing large fonts?
> >  - Screen readers?
> >
> > Does this need to happen at run time, or can it be in the systemsettings
> > module?
>
> Ubuntu Accessiblity will know, but I think that this sounds liek a
> sufficent
> approach. Of course having a screen reader is already tricky enough ^^
>
>
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