KDE logout options with F8
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Wed Oct 31 02:28:13 UTC 2007
Rahul Sundaram (sundaram at fedoraproject.org) said:
>> Thanks for dismissing my argument without even reading the context of it!
>> You're swell.
>
> I didn't see any context since you just said inflicting XDM is cruel
> without specifying why.
Let's see...
- it's ugly
- it's ancient
- it's veritably unmaintained
- it's lacking in features
> If someone installs just Xorg without any desktop
> environment, I don't see why the default Xorg display manager would be a
> bad choice. The only users who are going to install just Xorg are power
> users and we don't have to worry about them too much since this is a corner
> case.
Right! If they happened to choose this group before, let's change the
defaults now so they get something worse!
> Besides my point was that if users select GNOME they should get GDM and if
> users select KDE, they should get KDM. Is anyone willing to respond to
> that?
Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. gdm is installed as part of base-x. So
you can't change this just via package installation.
Bill
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