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Fedora 44 Will Be the First Distro to Adopt KDE's Plasma Login Manager (itsfoss.com)

submitted 4 days ago by warmaster@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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From their repo:

Plasma Login

Plasma Login provides a display manager for KDE Plasma, forked from SDDM and with an new frontend providing a greeter, wallpaper plugin integration and System Settings module (KCM).

What we want

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

Screen readers for blind people (which then means volume control)

Remote (VNC/RDP) support from startup

Deeper Plasma integration including:

Display and keyboard brightness control

Full power management

Pairing trusted bluetooth devices

Login to known Wi-Fi for remote LDAP

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Fedora will be the first distro? Adopting it even faster than KDE Neon, a distro made by KDE itself?

[–] unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

KDE neon is really only a development platform, and it is barely maintained.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Ah, TIL. I just figured it was the KDE-est general-purpose distro.

But still, shouldn't it at least have a development version of Plasma Login Manager sooner than any others, for testing?

[–] unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 4 points 4 days ago

it probably does, but it isnt considered a 'real' distro since it isnt suitable for non-development use (nor is it meant to be). its a very common misconception about KDE neon to think that since it's the KDE branded one it must be the best general-purpose KDE distro.

thats why they are making KDE Linux. KDE Linux is going to be what a lot of people mistakenly take neon to be while also fulfilling the role of 'development standard implementation/example implementation for distros to reference' much better.

[–] kumi@feddit.online 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Did you look this up?

What do you think is more likely - that KDE Neon does not have a testing version of Plasma Login Manager or that a sensationalistic news headline is not giving you a 100% accurate and complete understanding?

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

KDE Linux will probably have it first.

Edit: nevermind. https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/350