Discussion about greeter (log in) application for 16.10 Qt version

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Discussion about greeter (log in) application for 16.10 Qt version
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Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Lubuntu Developers
Priority:
Undefined
Drafter:
Lubuntu Developers
Direction:
Needs approval
Assignee:
Lubuntu Developers
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for y-series
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon y-alpha1
Started by
Julien Lavergne
Completed by
Simon Quigley

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=== Current Candidate ===
sddm

=== Proposals with +++ and --- ===

lxqt-lightdm-greeter

SDDM
+ lightweight
+ qt based
- does not support nvidia-prime
- Need infrastructure change in Ubuntu (casper) and packaging (Kubuntu team are on it)

=== Discussion ===
[joern-schoenyan] SDDM will give problems for people running a recent notebook with Nvidia Optimus if they want to use nvidia-prime. More or less the same problem people ran into when updating Lucid --> Precise (GDM --> LightDM). As LightDM is fine, I say
+1 LightDM with LXQt-Greeter
[gilir] lxqt-lightdm-greeter is not maintaned anymore by lxqt team. They recommend sddm
[tsimonq2] LightDM and the Lubuntu greeter *works* but SDDM is what the LXQt team recommends, LightDM is also GTK while SDDM is Qt
+1 sddm with sddm-theme-lubuntu-chooser
[gilir] Currently, sddm works, after some tweaking to casper configuration. Moving to sddm.
[tsimonq2] I think we can make a final decision on SDDM. We have theming for it, it's supported by upstream LXQt, and it's the best option at the moment. Closing.

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