Unlocking for Plasma Active 2

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Saturday 08 October 2011 14:48:37 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Saturday, October 08, 2011 14:31:15 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > I just wanted to outline some ideas for the screen unlocking experience in
> > Plasma Active 2.
> > 
> > In general I want to get the unlocker secure by using a KGreeterPlugin. My
> > KWin screenlocker effect now uses KGreeterPlugins to do the authentication
> > so  we need to change the existing active locker anyway.
> > 
> > From UI I would like to have a nice QML using dots to connect:
> >  0-0-0
> >  
> >  0-0-0
> >  
> >  0-0-0
> > 
> > each of the circles corresponds to a digit from 1-9. So connecting the
> > circles results in a number like 78963 (top left to top right to bottom
> > right). This could be used as the password and we can use the normal PAM
> > authentication for it.
> > 
> > So what do you think?
> 
> Sounds exactly like Android's screenlocker.
yes that's where I got the inspiration from. I was wondering how to turn that 
into a "password"
> Which is not necessarily bad,
> but maybe we can come up with something better / more beautiful even?
If we find something I am all for it, we should just make sure that it can be 
integrated with PAM.

Cheers
Martin
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