screen locking

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Monday, May 09, 2011 11:50:38 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> hi...
> 
> following up on Sebastian's great list of what's happened recently in the
> shell, i'd like to expand a bit on the lock window.
> 
> there are a few aspects of this we need to work on, most (all?) of which
> are on icescrum, but could probably use some additional design work. these
> include:
> 
> Q1: where does it live?
> current consensus is that this should be in the window manager. i need to
> speak with Martin about this...
> 
> Q2: how is it triggered?
> probably with a time out (configurable; but where/how? default value?),
> though we'll also need a way to trigger it purposefully. the answer to
> this relies on the "where does it live", but we already have the
> org.freeesktop.ScreenSaver DBus API with Lock() being one of the methods.
> hooking this up to either a hardware key or a software button on-screen
> shouldn't be hard, but is a decision we need to make.

It should be as much drop-in replacement as possible, yes.

> Q3: drag-to-unlock mechanics?
> right now there is a functional system of drag a lock icon to a nice large
> area (== easy to hit) to unlock. unfortunately, while functional it's not
> pretty. i need to speak with a designer about this. something fun and
> original will get us bonus points. ;)
> 
> Q4: how do we integrate notifications?
> if this goes into the window manager, it complicates this part a bit.
> however, we do know that we want to let the user know when certain kinds
> of notification occur (though not their content)

Q5: How does this relate to Plasma Widgets on screensaver?
Anything to be gotten from that, or is it technically completely orthogonal?
-- 
sebas

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