[question] Future of slick-greeter with lightdm #273
Description
At the time of writing, the last update of lightdm was 9 months ago and the last tag was 3 years ago; on top of that, it depends on xklavier, which is a deprecated component (Arch, although it is still available, marks it as deprecated in its description) and whose last version is over 10 years old and according to some sources, it is recommended to replace it with xkbcommon or similar or just build it in, I think Debian or Fedora wanted to remove it for a long time due to it unmaintained state...
I know there's a possibility to patch it and ignore the issue, but sooner or later something will have to be done or if removing it completely break some important stuff.
Is there any plan for the future considering the lack of maintenance of lightdm, and regarding Wayland support, the use of xklavier, and bug fixes and such?
The LightDM issue comes purely from the fact that slick-greeter is a greeter for LightDM, and although slick-greeter is maintained, the problem here is its dependency on the unmaintained LightDM.
I found this bug on another project talking about replacements, it's may be of help.
Also I was thinking it may be a good xapp project too.
Or maybe move to a different greeter like greetd?