Wiki » Feature:DesktopGreeter

Summary

Add a desktop greeter on the first login to customize the system for one's preference

Owner

• Name: Juan Luis Baptiste
• Email: <juancho@mageia.org>

Resources

List here people who will be implied in this feature (packagers, QA, doc, ...)

Current status

• Targeted release: Mageia 4
• Last updated: 2013/07/4
• Percentage of completion: 0%

Detailed Description

Some distributions like Pardus, Pisi (a Pardus fork) and Chakra use a desktop greeter program called kaptan (Chakra's port is called kapudan) developed by Pardus. Kaptan is an application that starts automatically the first time a user logs into KDE, and allows the user to configure some important desktop preferences like:

• Home folders to create (Downloads, Documents, Music, Videos, etc).
• Mouse clicking behavior: single or double click.
• Desktop theme.
• Desktop wallpaper.
• KDE menu type: Classic, Kickoff, Lancelot or Homerun.
• Login picture: uploaded from a file or taken from the webcam.

And on Chakra's fork, Kapudan, they have done some integration with their own distro tools, like:

• Configuration of updates frequency
• Services to start at boot time
• Security tools configuration: Firewall, clamav antivirus, tomoyo tools, kwallet and some others

Why it would be good for Mageia to include it

It should make Mageia better to everybody, because he will choose his own preferences, some people (like me) prefer Kickoff menu to Classic menu, some prefer single click, and a lot other examples. This allows us to let user choose instead of dictating defaults.

Software / Packages Dependencies

• Kapudan (should be ported)

What could disrupt development of this new feature

If nobody is could port it, it can not be included.

Planning

1. Port it to Mageia as an installable package
2. Test it

Contingency

Do not ship it.

Documentation

http://developer.pardus.org.tr/projects/kaptan/

http://chakra-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Kapudan

http://gitorious.org/+chakra-developers/chakra/kapudan

http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/08/26/every-distribution-should-have-its-own-kapudan/