[Design-team] Different Backgrounds for the Lock Screen vs the desktop

[Bastien Nocera]

----- Original Message -----
> > On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 02:32:49PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > > > > Can the screen shield be made always off?  I.e., I would prefer not
> > > > > to
> > > The shield is lowered when the user goes idle. You can inhibit that from
> > > happening, e.g. with
> > >  gnome-session-inhibit --inhibit idle --inhibit-only
> > 
> > 
> > This will also prevent the screen from locking and prevent the monitor from
> > going into power-saving mode, correct?
> 
> You can separate shield from locking in gnome control center. I.e. you can
> have a shield, but it doesn't have to lock the session.
> 
> Alas, you always have to have the shield. The only other option is to disable
> the idle detection (or inhibit it), which wastes energy (monitor doesn't
> turn off).
> 
> At home, I was used to bump the mouse to see my desktop. Now I have to drag
> or hit Esc. It's not that much difficult, of course, but if I do it twenty
> times a day, it becomes a bit annoying. The last time I tried, Bastion
> Nocera successfully ignored my requests to avoid lowering shield when
> session locking is disabled. It's trendy.

I'm pretty sure "Bastion" rejected the idea, instead of simply ignoring it :)

There's a gnome-shell extension to disable it.

> On the other hand, I saw Windows 8 recently and I couldn't find a difference.
> They copied GNOME's behavior perfectly. It felt like home :-)

And that's how to disable it on Windows:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2013667/8-worst-windows-8-irritations-and-how-to-fix-them.html

The reason why it's there is the same as why it's in GNOME, it stops
touches/keypresses/mouse clicks from getting to the apps for the time
when the screen turns back on. So it's a requirement for touch devices, as well as
for desktops and laptops that lack touch.