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Fedora 44 Will Be the First Distro to Adopt KDE's Plasma Login Manager (itsfoss.com)
submitted 9 months ago by 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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[–] 13 points 9 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months 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?

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months 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?

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