is that it will result in SDDM being abandoned

It already was I read somewhere in a posting that it had been years since a commit was made to it, just like the Xorg people and their effort kill that off with the bitrot. At this point in time anyone who seriously believes they are not going systemd only is a GD fool. And get in contact with me I have bridge for sale in Brooklyn going dirt cheap only one owner...

The danger here in this fork of SDDM becoming the standard display manager of KDE, is that it will result in SDDM being abandoned - and despite all the wordplay, the goals are obvious.  Greater systemd dependence [at the expense of portability] and the rationale? :

https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1 … usable_on/

That first statement is weasel words.  This is simply an attempt to weave in systemd dependency by systemd advocates.

The second statement essentially means that only Red Hat/Debian/etc matter.

If you would allow me I'd like to make an attempt to have a positive outlook.

That good news is to simply run KDE with a different login manager and avoid the systemd nonsense.  At least until systemd creeps into the remaining KDE components.  To be realistic I'm sure the systemd, rust, etc rot is coming to KDE just like it is with gnome. But hopefully it's at a pace user's can plan their exit.  Or even better find solutions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

also for your amusement:

https://endof10.org/

Figures.  I guess that means no more KDE on FreeBSD as well.  Back to XFCE then.  Well, at least if one wants to use their PLM.  As long as SDDM is still compatible, we're ok?

Yes until the bitrot settles in theoretically they have left it to die for years now like the Xorg weasels have done or as I have read in places they are going to further enshitify it with systemd-home for the login. The cancer keeps spreading, you may want to look at LXQt it is what settled on after dumping KDE after more than twenty-five years of use due to this garbage they do.

I guess the background variable in /var/share/sddm/themes/debian-breeze/theme.conf was set to a non-existent file.  I set it to one found in /usr/share/wallpapers/Next/contents/images

>FYI KDE is dumping sddm in favor of their new Plasma Login Manager (PLM) which will only work on systemd systems. sad

Figures.  I guess that means no more KDE on FreeBSD as well.  Back to XFCE then.  Well, at least if one wants to use their PLM.  As long as SDDM is still compatible, we're ok?