From twoplay19 at gmail.com Sat Apr 12 16:04:43 2025 From: twoplay19 at gmail.com (Philippe Westenfelder) Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2025 18:04:43 +0200 Subject: Proposal for a Desktop Environment-Agnostic Standard for Configuring Login Manager Settings Message-ID: <65c149d8-cb52-4d9c-8de0-f1aa720951cd@gmail.com> Hello everyone, I would like to propose the creation of a new standard that allows for consistent and desktop environment-independent configuration of login manager settings. Currently, the way login manager settings (such as autologin, session selection, and theme configuration) are handled varies significantly between different desktop environments and display managers. This often leads to fragmentation, duplicated efforts, and confusion for users and developers alike. My proposal is to define a shared specification or configuration interface that can be used by all login managers and desktop environments to read and apply these common settings. Such a standard would promote better interoperability, simplify system configuration (especially for distributions and system integrators), and improve the overall user experience. If there is already work being done in this direction, I would be very interested in learning more and potentially contributing. Otherwise, I would be happy to help develop a draft specification and engage in discussions with the community. Thank you for your time and for your continued work on improving the Linux desktop ecosystem. Best regards, Philippe