Review Request 109609: disable session management for screensavers

[Wolfgang Bauer]

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Ping?
Any opinions/comments?

Btw, this patch is part of openSUSE's official KDE packages since September.

- Wolfgang Bauer


On Sept. 11, 2013, 1:15 a.m., Wolfgang Bauer wrote:
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> (Updated Sept. 11, 2013, 1:15 a.m.)
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> Review request for kde-workspace and Oliver Henshaw.
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> Bugs: 314859
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314859
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> Repository: kde-workspace
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> Description
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> This patch disables session management for screensavers.
> Therefore no screensaver windows popup anymore on login if processes keep on running when the user logs out.
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> As proposed in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314859#c18
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> This doesn't solve the underlying problem of bug#224200 of course, but provides better user experience for now, so please accept.
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> And IMHO it doesn't make sense to restore screensavers on login, anyway.
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> Diffs
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>   kscreensaver/libkscreensaver/main.cpp 6851ba1 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/109609/diff/
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> Testing
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> - Turn on the "Blank Screen" (kblankscrn.kss) screensaver in systemsettings.
> - Wait for the screensaver to kick in
> - Verify that the process is still running (due to bug#224200)
> - log out
> - log in again
> Now no "kblankscrn.kss" window is opened anymore (without the patch, a window should appear)
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> Thanks,
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> Wolfgang Bauer
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