[Kde-hardware-devel] kde's power management configuration

Gregor Galwas g.galwas at highantdev.de
Mon Feb 22 08:33:30 CET 2010


Hi,

On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:40:33 +0100, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:

> Actually, it's not only his time, but might lead to misconfiguration  
> which might lead
> to security problems. People forgetting to set it to lock for one, but  
> not for the
> other (and then, weeks later suspend to disk while they used to suspend  
> to RAM --
> it's easy to confuse those two, I guess most users are not able to tell  
> the
> difference) and the machine is not locked while it should be.
>
> Security settings have to be as simple as possible, otherwise they're  
> not effective.
> For that reason, I'd prefer to not make it an option, too.

Thank you for explaining me this.
I must admit, you've got a point. Indeed it could lead to security  
problems which weights more that just the comfort.

After all, I just thought it would be a nice feature and shouldn't be too  
hard to implement. I didn't think about any consequences though.

Best regards
Gregor Galwas


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