On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:19 AM, Harald Sitter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:apachelogger@ubuntu.com">apachelogger@ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thursday 09 June 2011 20:57:04 David Edmundson wrote:<br>
> For the KDE side of things I intend to have a QML powered greeter<br>
> engine. This will display any QML file as the greeter, and provide all<br>
> the linking to the LightDM daemon and general models and such.<br>
><br>
> This enables anyone to build a login theme without any compiling, and<br>
> makes it completely safe for the end user.<br>
> I've outlined my goals/design/reasoning in more detail here:<br>
> <a href="http://static.davidedmundson.co.uk/lightdm_goals.txt" target="_blank">http://static.davidedmundson.co.uk/lightdm_goals.txt</a><br>
<br>
</div>Sounds awesome.<br>
I'd like to propose two goals though:<br>
a) accessible<br>
b) scalibility (should work well with ldap setups with >10 users etc.)<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> There is also a shiny picture of what my demo greeter looks like here:<br>
> <a href="http://static.davidedmundson.co.uk/lightdm_2.png" target="_blank">http://static.davidedmundson.co.uk/lightdm_2.png</a>. Note the use of<br>
> plasma widgets.<br>
> It's not finished, but it shows what I'm doing. I imagine kubuntu will<br>
> want to Kubuntu-ify it a bit. If anyone has any designs let me know.<br>
<br>
</div>Mockup by sheytan: <a href="http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/7461/basegi.jpg" target="_blank">http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/7461/basegi.jpg</a><br>
I believe this would be a good default. Something I never liked about the<br>
current KDM default is that you cannot click somewhere to select your user,<br>
but instead had to know your user name *eeek*.<br>
To that extent the user name login box perhaps should be non-editable if you<br>
selected a user and only become editable on click. Just a random thought<br>
though.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> This is in development here:<br>
> <a href="http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=scratch%2Fdavidedmundson%2Flightdmqmlgreeter.git&" target="_blank">http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=scratch%2Fdavidedmundson%2Flightdmqmlgreeter.git&</a><br>
> a=summary There is a demo theme here:<br>
> <a href="http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=scratch%2Fdavidedmundson%2Flightdmdemogreeter.git" target="_blank">http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=scratch%2Fdavidedmundson%2Flightdmdemogreeter.git</a><br>
> &a=summary<br>
><br>
> It requires the latest master of lightdm to compile (lp:lightdm).<br>
<br>
</div>Could someone get this in a PPA please or perhaps the neon people could get<br>
weekly builds going?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sure, I can take a look at it tomorrow.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
> I've made a bit of a start on the KDM settings module, but I don't<br>
> know any policyKit so will get stuck with that shortly. I'm working on<br>
> kde's git repos as I want this to be an upstream thing, though the<br>
> general feedback on my blog was fairly negative so I've not approached<br>
> anyone yet.<br>
<br>
</div>With polkit we can help. I think just about everyone in the programming part<br>
of the team had done polkit at one point or another.<br>
<br>
As for the comments: you should beware of how important they are. They neither<br>
reflect common opinion nor particularly technical reasoning (especially the<br>
ones on your post from a quick glance). The only two valuable concerns I<br>
noticed were: supreme PAM support and enterprise readiness. Both things that<br>
should entirely be secured before going anywhere with LightDM IMHO.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Moving forwards, I think I should take discussion about KDE and<br>
> LightDM off the kubuntu ML and maybe onto the LightDM ML? I'm not sure<br>
> if I'm bugging people. I also need some opinions from you and to get<br>
> some more people on board.<br>
<br>
</div>If you feel it makes more sense there... Having stuff here is not particularly<br>
distrubing though, especially since we get free status updates that way :P<br>
<br>
What sort of people do you need?<br>
<br>
regards,<br>
<font color="#888888">Harald<br>
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