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KDE Developers Begin Working On A New Login Manager
KDE developer David Edmundson has published a lengthy blog post today outlining the long-standing challenges they have with the SDDM display manager, unimplemented features they want out of a log-in manager, and acknowledging GNOME's GDM as a 'gold standard' for display managers
- Great out-of-box experience in multi-monitor and high DPI and HDR - Keyboard layout switching - Virtual keyboards - Easy Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese (CJK) input - Display and keyboard brightness control - Full power management - Screen readers for blind people (which then means volume control) - Pairing trusted bluetooth devices - Login to known Wi-Fi for remote LDAP - Remote (VNC/RDP) support from startup While not yet an official KDE project, the developers have begun working on this new Plasma Login / Plasma Login Manager code. The code is working and they even have a screenshot to show, but it's not yet ready for distro packaging or a state beyond developers wanting to explore: Those wanting to learn more about this new KDE Plasma log-in manager effort can do so via David Edmundson's blog.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.
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