Screen Locking for 4.10

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday, October 4, 2012 17:38:07 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.
> 
> > - 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.

or even if PM never kicks in. people do still use desktop computers :)

> > 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.

yes and no. it sort of works, but a number of things aren't quite working 
right:

* no ability to move widgets (even in config mode)
* the QML based Add Widgets UI moves items around visibly outside the area of 
its UI. this is the "coming in" and "going out" animations in the Add Widgets 
UI (which could be nicer as fade in/out anyways?), and it just doesn't work 
here

the config mode could also use some help in general, sth i've been thinking 
about. i don't have a concrete solution suggestion yet, but i'm getting near 
some ideas that i'll share once they are more fully realized.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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