Screen Locking for 4.10

[Marco Martin]

On Thursday 04 October 2012, Luca Beltrame wrote:
> In data giovedì 4 ottobre 2012 17:20:40, Aleix Pol ha scritto:
> > By default, since the new branch was merged, I'm getting a white
> > screen (that feels a bit aggressive), so I decided to go to the KCM
> 
> On my system it paints the default KDE wallpaper. But other people that
> have been testing this (some fellow openSUSE folks) report the white
> screen as well.

it uses the default wallpaper as is defined in the currently used plasma 
theme.
it probably may need more fallback but i sense a broken distribution here
ie not installing the kde default wallpaper but still having the used plasma 
theme pointing at it without correction

i would be surprised if every newly created activity doesn't come out with a 
white wallpaper as well

> > - We can set an option to "Start Automatically after x seconds". I
> > have a feeling that tells me that this should depend on the Power
> 
> This is likely "legacy" of screensaver, but I think it's orthogonal to
> power settings: you may want to lock *before* powermanagement kicks in.
> 
> > There's also the "Desktop Widgets" option. There, I think a nicer name
> 
> > would be "Interactive Locker". It sounded appealing to me but then:
> Speaking of that (as you wrote below), is plasma-overlay working at all? I
> risked getting myself locked out as well.

there was yesterday a fix in the greeter, should solve the unlock issues

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Marco Martin