To the Mate package maintainers

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 06:10:06PM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Andy Lawrence writes:
> 
> >Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank
> >you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you!
> 
> Agreed. This also seems to be a convenient place to add my own
> snarky comment, that doesn't really merit its own thread.
> 
> I see that Gnome's lock screen now shows a pretty clock, after the
> display wakes up, that must be "swiped" away in order to unlock the
> desktop. Somehow (and this would be the snarky part) I knew even
> before I started looking, that there seems to be no bloody way to
> turn it off, in case you don't feel fond of having to go through an
> extra step of unlocking a locked desktop.

Swiping is a very hard action on a Lenovo trackpad.  It needs two
hands and very precise coordination.  Doesn't give a good message to
our less abled / less coordinated users.

Rich.

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