Comments on: Few things about kdm that do not make much sense to me

By: liuxq

liuxq — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:15:55 +0000

Could you just say your name (and profile) to your computer, and it log you in?

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Qml to Kdm! Presto! | Enrico Ros — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:22:47 +0000

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By: dh

dh — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:45:51 +0000

Thanks, I've been searching all over to find out how to login to remote desktops from kdm. hours later I come across your site and I can actually do what I want.

Thanks.

BTW I also agree that there are many areas that kde has lost its way intuitively speaking. But I'm glad to see that it is almost usable now (4.3)

KDM is just one of those places but since it is the first thing you see as a new user it has to make a good impression

By: Bill Mceachran

Bill Mceachran — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:56:48 +0000

To disable the option for 'console login' you comment out the line 'ConsoleTTY' in /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc

By: Gabriele Santanché

Gabriele Santanché — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:05:07 +0000

You can reconfigure kdm, as you like ! ... RTFM

By: I Love

I Love — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:30:16 +0000

Yet another reason why KDE4 was so bad. I can't wait for it to go down in flames. I just want to say in advanced: I told you so!

This blog did nothing but focus on how things look. Is that all your cult of kde can think of? Cause we Lowly people actually care about what a DE can do. Not just it's how nice it looks. Why don't you all just go make gnome look better and we will all have the best of both worlds. A somewhat more usable DE that looks kinda nice, or at least tries to look nice, since all you've actually done is reimplemented Windows 7 themes.

For those of you that think it's the LM, it's not, it's the whole DE. It's filled with inconsistencies.
Just grab a folder view and rotate it 20 degrees, see what happens.

By: David Vignoni

David Vignoni — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:06:53 +0000

thanks everyone for writing your opinion and suggestions.

In general I'd say KDM should be customizable and come with a couple of configuration profiles that distros can choose for default.

I can see how all the features like remote access and console access can be useful, so they should be redesigned as well but perhaps not included as default for a "desktop" profile configuration but instead being included on a "advanced" profile configuration or being activate by the user.

For profiles like "desktop" that would have a nicely styled list, KDM should be able to adapt the layout for any user case:

single user
2-5 users
a lot of users

In general KDM should be "smart" and present options and actions only when necessary (i.e. switch user).

Next step for me is to create some very different "personas" and flowcharts to find out how to handle any situation.

I'll hopefully be showing something by beginning of next week.

Stay tuned.

By: Davide Bettio (WindowsUninstall)

Davide Bettio (WindowsUninstall) — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:48:13 +0000

Your usability report is great
We are looking forward to the next usability report

By: Mohammad

Mohammad — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:08:16 +0000

This is great! These are the thing that should be looked at too and finally I see things happening ...

These type of "finishing" or "UIser Exp pilishing" as I would like to call them I have seen missing in KDE (yes 3, 4 etc) and in overall FOSS products.

While I do believe in technical excellence of products like Linux, KDE (Gnome is lot ahead in this particular aspect), I am still a avid fan of M$ just for their effor in designing the user experience.

Once FOSS / community products put effort in this aspect too, I will have a desktop complete of FOS stack that is not only technically superior, it will be a pleasure to use it too. Right now all I have is good technology at the cost of user experience.