Plasma Workspace as systemd user-session

Ultimate Goal

The ultimate goal of this project is, to make use of systemd's support for user-sessions wherever possible for running a Plasma Workspace. This support is to be implemented in a way which doesn't get in the way of legacy/cross-platform support, so running a Plasma Workspace without a systemd user-session underneath will still be possible.

What are the benefits?

Parallelized and faster startup of the Plasma Workspace after login
More finegrained control over running services
Increased stability by eliminating existing hacks in startkde, ksmserver, kdeinit, …
Cleaner definition of dependencies between Plasma Workspace components
Increased security

Resources

user-session units for Plasma Workspace

I created some initial user-session units for Plasma Workspace which can be found on GitHub.