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
  • Domi@lemmy.secnd.me
    181·
    3 days ago

    It always chooses the default highest resolution, (which may not work on some devices with faulty EDID), does not respect the Wayland/X11 choice, has a long pause when going from login screen to desktop and does not support 24h clocks.

    Just to name a few.

    • Tommi Nieminen@europe.pub
      1·
      1 day ago

      It supports 24h clocks all right and always has (I’ve used Plasma with SDDM for years and never have had issues with the clock!), but as you said in a different thread, it may have problems in separating the common locale from the time format.

    • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      has a long pause when going from login screen to desktop

      Yea I have noticed this. It takes a long time to switch back as well when you lock the computer, logout, switch users, etc

      • Domi@lemmy.secnd.me
        1·
        1 day ago

        The first one I think is a fundamental limitation in that display preferences by default is per-user. Maybe this makes it work for you? https://feddit.online/post/1350756/comment/6636228

        I don’t really have this problem anymore since I got rid of my projector which advertised a resolution it couldn’t handle. Had to login into the void since the login screen never showed up. Looks like this might be fixable nowadays.

        The 24h clock might be similar - check your system-wide locale.

        The locale is set to American English but the time format is set to German, something the lock screen can handle but SDDM cannot. I also tried applying the Plasma settings to SDDM a few times but it doesn’t really change anything.