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KDE Will Depend on 'logind' and 'timedated' in 6 Months

posted by janrinok on Friday February 20 2015, @01:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the and-perhaps-it-will-work dept.

jbernardo writes:

Earlier this week, KDE developer David Edmundson described in his blog how KDE would be tied to logind and timedated but not systemd itself, at least according to his claim that "The init system is one part of systemd that doesn't affect us at all, and any other could be used.".

Later, in the blog comments, he clarifies that starting with plasma 5.5, in 6 months, they'll drop "legacy" support, according to a decision taken in the plasma sprint.

Even if one can only guess why there is no formal announcement, it seems clear - unless somehow there is a shim or emulator, not only for logind but also for timedated, in 6 months KDE will be unusable unless you are running systemd. And the blog entry makes it clear that the plan is to remove more and more functionality from KDE and use systemd instead.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 20 2015, @01:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 20 2015, @01:34PM (#147393)

    According to the blog, it doesn't. It just depends on something that happens to depend on the init system. You could always develop an alternative with the same badly defined and frequently changing interface, right? Something like wine trying to translate calls to Windows internals...

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Friday February 20 2015, @03:55PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 20 2015, @03:55PM (#147449) Journal
    Or you could make a well defined interface to KDE for that and then a thin layer to unbreak/translate the "frequently changing interface" of logind or whatever into the well defined interface. That removes the dependency on systemd.