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

[Dario Freddi]

On Monday 22 February 2010 08:33:30 Gregor Galwas wrote:
> 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.

Yes - I didn't really manage to explain the point in my previous mail - but it 
was indeed not laziness or any kind of this stuff :) It's just because some 
feature with not-so-common use cases really risk to backfire on standard users 
at some point.

> 
> 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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