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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