GSoC/2019/StatusReports/Filip Fila

Summary

Project Name: Ensuring consistency between the SDDM login manager and the Plasma desktop
Mentors: David Edmundson and Nate Graham
Abstract: The Plasma desktop does not have a hard dependency on any login manager, but the SDDM (Simple Desktop Display Manager) login manager is the recommended option. SDDM used in conjunction with Plasma, however, results in certain issues, some of which fall under the guise of consistency between the login screen and the desktop. In practice this means that as soon as there is any relevant veering from Plasma defaults, the login manager no longer provides an identical visual experience. This GSoC project would try to solve that very issue by adding the possibility of syncing the desktop and login manager options. Options that could be synced are: color scheme, font, font size, font rendering, icon theme (obtained from the Plasma theme). Rather than adding discrete options, the suggestion is to have only one option that would pertain to syncing SDDM settings with a particular user’s settings. Patching SDDM to support Plasma wallpapers would also fall within the scope of the project. Most importantly, because desktop display scaling preferences are likewise not respected in SDDM, the project would also tackle the issue of allowing users to set a display scaling preference via GUI.

Done:

- Redesign of the UI that will house new synchronization options: https://phabricator.kde.org/D21610

- Changing the default save directory from /etc/sddm.conf to /etc/sddm.conf.d/kde_settings.conf: https://phabricator.kde.org/D21610

In progress:

- first version of theming syncing: font, font rendering, color scheme, icon theme, Plasma (desktop) theme: https://phabricator.kde.org/D22191