Re: KDE logout options with F8

[Christopher Aillon <caillon redhat com>]

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.