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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[–] 132 points 9 months ago (7 children)

No AI? Are they allowed to do that? Are you sure?

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  • [–] 131 points 9 months ago (1 child)
    • Types in username and password

    "Perfect! You are now logged into your computer. Enjoy your desktop!"

    • Nothing happens. Try to log in again

    "You're absolutely right, I failed to log you in while claiming you had actually logged in. Good catch! I'll log you into your system now. Have fun!"

    • Nothing happens
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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Feature request: AI password validator , because who needs central directory anyway

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    Letting AI decide if I entered the correct password is so much better than actually storing the passwords in an encrypted keychain (which can be hacked!!!). AI is revolutionizing security. This is the way of the future. /s

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  • [–] 54 points 9 months ago

    Very cool. I’m consistently impressed by the KDE devs.

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  • [–] 23 points 9 months ago (15 children)

    Thank god SDDM is a nightmare

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    [–] 21 points 9 months ago (22 children)

    Damn. I wonder when this trickles down to CachyOS and Bazzite.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (19 children)

    Quickly in Bazzite, not at all in Cachy since that's based on Arch.

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  • [–] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (11 children)

    But you can choose your login manager on Arch, too.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    And yet, Fedora changing their default login manager won't affect Arch.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    What kind of argument is that?

    It's already in AUR, you can install it right now if you want.

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    [–] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    looking forward to it, sddm is the only thing I have left that depends on xorg directly

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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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    [–] 11 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    meanwhile I just want to go back to blank/black lockscreen with no visual cues and you just type the password and nothing happens of it's wrong, but I've been quite sick of trying to look up how to do forgotten things I had on older systems only to get AI slop guides that ramble on with a hallucinated life story and either never getting to the point of just not working.

    I wish no visuals could just be a setting on all distros

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    [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Easy Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese (CJK) input

    This reminds me of what a pain in the it was for me to get an IME working. I may not be smart, but even accounting for that, it was unnecessarily complicated.

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