> many of the larger DEs use logind because it is good at what it does and consolekit at that time was not really active anymore. More that ConsoleKit develope

> many of the larger DEs use logind because it is good at what it does and consolekit at that time was not really active anymore. More that ConsoleKit developers and logind/systemd overlapped. For GNOME, logind seemed better and used to be separate. A warning that it would not always stay decoupled was underestimated/ignored. Once logind was tied to systemd all hell broke loose :-P Having something like systemd is great; e.g. GNOME has various user services running. Nowadays systemd manages those user services. But as great as that is, it makes non-Linux more difficult. IMO systemd on Linux makes things very easy and it's better to standardize on it.