Removing disable idle system screenlock as default behaviour for Plasma 5

Lukáš Tinkl ltinkl at redhat.com
Thu Apr 23 12:47:44 UTC 2015


Dne 23.4.2015 v 14:32 Reindl Harald napsal(a):
> 
> Am 23.04.2015 um 14:30 schrieb Lukáš Tinkl:
>> Dne 23.4.2015 v 11:12 Reindl Harald napsal(a):
>>>
>>> Am 22.04.2015 um 23:57 schrieb Luigi Toscano:
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> my workstation is not a phone and when i sit in front of the TV and look
>>> to the PC i am interested if a long running task is finish or in which
>>> folders new mails arrived but *not* in a screen lock
>>
>> Indeed, and you as a savvy user know very well how to turn the
>> screenlock off :)
> 
> and what about the not savvy users which have no problem right click and
> lock the screen if they want and need but need to dig around to find out
> how to disable aggressive defaults?
> 
> 5 minutes is a bad joke
> 

Ye I'm fine with making the default interval longer but disabling it
completely... nope.


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