Removing disable idle system screenlock as default behaviour for Plasma 5

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Wed Apr 22 22:30:06 UTC 2015


On Wed, 2015-04-22 at 23:57 +0200, Luigi Toscano wrote:
> Germano Massullo ha scritto:
> > I would like to talk about screen lock in KDE Plasma 5.
> > 
> > KDE Plasma 5 locks the screen with user password after 5 minutes of
> > system being in idle.
> > I think that we should disable screenlock as default behaviour for KDE
> > Plasma, because it will annoy many users. If anybody needs it, it can be
> > easly activated.
> 
> I would rather keep it as it. Especially for laptops. Does your phone locks
> automatically or not? It's the same IMHO.

Your phone turns off the screen to save battery, and may optionally lock
for security against theft (though I don't know of any that do this by
default). A desktop is a completely different use case.

poc



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