KDE logout options with F8
lexual
floss at lex.hider.name
Wed Oct 31 05:32:32 UTC 2007
Kevin Kofler wrote:
> lexual <floss <at> lex.hider.name> writes:
>
>> 1) Isn't it a bug that shutdown/hibernate options aren't available in
>> kde using gdm?
>>
>
> It is, it has been fixed now.
>
>
<monty burns>Excellllent!</monty burns>
>> 2) Isn't the issue not whether gdm or kdm gets installed (kdm will also
>> be installed with kde desktop group), but which one is set to run on
>> booting.
>>
>
> Yes. But not installing GDM in the first place would make booting do the right
> thing automatically, so that would be one way to do it.
>
>
>> 3) I agree that avoiding xdm is a good idea.
>>
>
> Are you suggesting throwing out all the lightweight WMs too? How's XDM any
> different?
>
>
No. There is a difference between kicking something out of the archive,
and installing it by default.
>> 4) If we change so that user ticking kde group install get kdm on boot,
>> what happens if user has ticked both gnome and kde. It's perfectly
>> legitimate to have a computer where different users use gnome, kde,
>> xfce, etc. So GNOME/KDE desktop installation isn't always an either or
>> option. They're not mutually exclusive.
>>
>
> Then they get a global default, probably GDM. (It's what happens now if both
> GDM and KDM are installed, which is part of what causes this issue, the other
> part being that GDM is always installed by default.)
>
>
Disclaimer: I'm a Fedora newbie, and clueless to how much of it works.
Here's my idea.
Could this be fixed in comps.xml ?
e.g. the british language support group has conditional requires like
the following:
<packagelist>
<packagereq type="conditional"
requires="kdelibs">kde-i18n-British</packag
ereq>
<packagereq type="conditional"
requires="koffice-core">koffice-langpack-en
_GB</packagereq>
</packagelist>
I think I'm right in writing that the only desktop option on DVD are
gnome & kde (don't think xfce is on there).
So could the gdm dependency in base-x group be a conditional one on
having gnome installed?
>> Is it a kdebase or gdm bug that the shutdown options aren't available
>> from a kde session with gdm as manager?
>>
>
> GDM made a change which broke KDE, Bill Nottingham has patched kdebase to match
> the new GDM now.
>
> Kevin Kofler
>
>
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