Fwd: Unlocking for Plasma Active 2

[Carl Symons]

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From: Carl Symons <carlsymons at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: Unlocking for Plasma Active 2
To: Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org>


On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> 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. Which is not necessarily bad, but
> maybe we can come up with something better / more beautiful even?
> --
> sebas
>

Colors alone won't work for the color blind. Shapes instead of numbers?
http://www.aimsedu.org/puzzle/shapemakers/shapemkr.pdf.
tangrams http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangram