Removing disable idle system screenlock as default behaviour for Plasma 5

Lukáš Tinkl ltinkl at redhat.com
Thu Apr 23 12:57:51 UTC 2015


Dne 23.4.2015 v 14:53 Reindl Harald napsal(a):
> 
> 
> 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

We fixed that stupid behavior in Plasma 5.3

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Lukáš Tinkl <ltinkl at redhat.com>
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KDE developer <lukas at kde.org>
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