Rahul Sundaram wrote:
GNOME display manager is not logically associated with GNOME Desktop
Environment? If that's the case, it makes it even more illogical that
GNOME display manager is default for KDE Desktop Environment. Either we
have a neutral display manager that works well for them both (it doesn't
in this case since there is a regression in functionality inflicted by
our defaults) or we install whatever display manager goes well with the
desktop environment.
GDM is getting a massive face lift to be more generic. The original
intent was to get KDE on board as well such that all you'd do is swap
toolkits and use the same backend. We've been trying to convince KDM
upstream to participate but I've heard there's been pushback because of
something dumb like we need to be bug for bug compatible with the
existing KDM, which is just not going to happen.