Continuing the work started with the login experience this cycle I think
we should improve the screen locking, user switching experience. We
should also revisit if we want to support screensaver graphics or rather
if that's a priority to invest efforts in
Cheers,
Sebastien Bacher
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10-04-2011, 09:30 AM
Bryce Harrington
Improved screen locking, user switching
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 11:07:39AM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Hey again,
>
> Continuing the work started with the login experience this cycle I think
> we should improve the screen locking, user switching experience. We
> should also revisit if we want to support screensaver graphics or rather
> if that's a priority to invest efforts in
Many of the graphical screensavers are dated looking, and a few can
trigger bugs, however I do think it makes sense to keep at least a few
of the popular or multipurpose ones, such as the Picture folder
slideshow.
Bryce
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10-10-2011, 09:53 AM
Sebastien Bacher
Improved screen locking, user switching
Le mardi 04 octobre 2011 à 11:07 +0200, Sebastien Bacher a écrit :
> we should improve the screen locking
On that topic something which comes often is when to lock screen, we
should do a table listing the different cases where the screen might get
locked (i.e on idle delay, suspend, lid close, user switching, etc) and
the different credential scenarios (i.e autologin, password login, etc).
We should also decide if the "lock screen on idle" option from the
control center should affect, i.e user switching
The topic comes quite often in bugs report and there is some conflicts
there being "security" and "no password prompting", we currently force
the screen locking on user switching or suspend but we should probably
give an easy way to opt out for users who don't want it.
We might need design input on the topic as well.
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10-11-2011, 12:15 PM
Matthew Paul Thomas
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Sebastien Bacher wrote on 10/10/11 10:53:
>
> Le mardi 04 octobre 2011 à 11:07 +0200, Sebastien Bacher a écrit :
>>
>> we should improve the screen locking
>
> On that topic something which comes often is when to lock screen,
> we should do a table listing the different cases where the screen
> might get locked (i.e on idle delay, suspend, lid close, user
> switching, etc) and the different credential scenarios (i.e
> autologin, password login, etc).
>
> ...
Excellent idea. More than that, I suggest that we should have a living
specification for sessions in general. For each of
{start up, log in with password, log in automatically, lock screen
manually, lock screen automatically, unlock, switch user account,
log out, suspend, hibernate, restart, shut down},
we should define how that function is made available (or not), looks,
behaves, and fails gracefully, for
{a standard user account, an admin account, a guest session, a
live/test-drive session}.
That way we can ensure everything is consistent, and we can comprehend
the whole scope when we make functional changes. (For example, if in
future we added a "Restart Into Windows" function for dual-booting,
specifying it for all those cases would make both the design and the
implementation more robust.)
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