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FS#66207 - [sddm] add accountsservice as optional depend

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Christoffer (Brott) - Friday, 10 April 2020, 15:28 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Friday, 10 April 2020, 16:18 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Felix Yan (felixonmars)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: AccountsService should be added as an optional dependency, similar to how LightDM has it, because it can optionally be used to handle user icons (avatars) as described here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SDDM#User_icon_(avatar).
This task depends upon

Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Friday, 10 April 2020, 16:18 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Friday, 10 April 2020, 16:10 GMT
what's the point? sddm can see the icons from /var/lib/AccountsService regardless of whether accountsservice is installed or not. Installing it is not going to fix anything unless you have a UI that writes the icons there, sddm itself has no code at all to interact with it.
Comment by Christoffer (Brott) - Friday, 10 April 2020, 16:17 GMT
I see. Feel free to close then.

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