The move replaces SDDM but means giving up on custom login themes.

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
    • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
      98·
      24 days ago
      • 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
    • SuperiorOne@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8·
      24 days ago

      I demand a KoChauffeur+ button. How are we supposed to login to our computer without a slopchatbox!?

          • texture@lemmy.world
            72·
            24 days ago

            ??? are you being serious? obviously fedorah isnt arch.

            anyway, Cachy will have it the second KDE adds it to the plasma / kde-applications packages.

              • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                3·
                24 days ago

                He’s not talking about fedora, he didn’t ask about if fedora’s changes would make it into cachy os but about the timeframe on how quickly the plasma login manager being a default for the plasma desktop environment on cachy os. Talk about whiffing right over the head, I think it must’ve been in orbit.

                • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
                  13·
                  24 days ago

                  Sure, that was cleared up a couple hours ago when OP clarified as such. Since texture apparently wanted to argue (given his many comments posted long after the clarification), I thought I’d play along for him.

                • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
                  15·
                  23 days ago

                  Why don’t you send me even more replies over the next few days, I’m sure that will be really helpful!

          • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
            2·
            24 days ago

            I guess that person didn’t know they could set it up themselves. Maybe they meant that it’s installed and configured automatically on new installs.

            • texture@lemmy.world
              11·
              24 days ago

              they would still be totally wrong. it will be available for new installs the moment kde adds it to the plasma packages. their comment makes zero sense.

      • sanpo@sopuli.xyz
        63·
        24 days ago

        What kind of argument is that?

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

        • khornechips@sh.itjust.works
          163·
          24 days ago

          Right, but since it isn’t based on Fedora, which this post is about, what Fedora is doing has no bearing on what CachyOS uses as its defaults.

          • sanpo@sopuli.xyz
            35·
            24 days ago

            Except they responded to a post talking about an Arch-based distro, so Fedora isn’t relevant here.

    • warmaster@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      24 days ago

      In Bazzite it’s usually between same day and 24 hours, since the build process is fully automated.

  • Mactan@lemmy.ml
    12·
    24 days ago

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

  • grue@lemmy.world
    10·
    24 days ago

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

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    24 days ago

    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

  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    24 days 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.

  • Jinni@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    23 days ago

    This made me aware of this option in the first place. Just swapped it in on my desktop and it already feels less jank.

    Great decision on Fedoras part. My laptop is running KDE fedora so can’t wait til it gets this update.