Removing disable idle system screenlock as default behaviour for Plasma 5

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Thu Apr 23 12:53:50 UTC 2015



Am 23.04.2015 um 14:45 schrieb Luigi Toscano:
> On Thursday 23 of April 2015 14:32:32 Reindl Harald wrote:
>> Am 23.04.2015 um 14:30 schrieb Lukáš Tinkl:
>>> Dne 23.4.2015 v 11:12 Reindl Harald napsal(a):
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>
> I think that there is an more global advantage with the current settings.
>
> Compare:
> - annoyed *once* and locker disabled forever
> vs
> - device by default with no locker and potential untracked access

close the lid of a notebook -> locked

> Is also the login password an aggressive default?

laughable comparison

there are worlds between power on a foreign machine and need to 
authenticate then force the user to move the mouse all the time to 
prevent screen locking - have fun watching a video with that stupid behavior

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