Background for login, splash, and lockscreen

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Mon Jun 23 09:09:19 UTC 2014


On Monday 23 June 2014, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> On Monday 23 June 2014 10:55:07 Jens wrote:
> > Well the user selected? Oooooh wouldn't that be cool!?
> 
> no it wouldn't because of privacy and security. A wallpaper can both expose
> very private information one wouldn't want on the login screen (think of
> picture of naked girlfriend category) and is also security relevant. In
> fact it might not be possible to get the information at all as the home
> partition might be encrypted.
> 
> There are things which call for a default wallpaper. The login screen is
> one of them :-)

may be set either with a separate kcm, or whith an option in the contaiment 
wallpaper setting (with the appropriate warning message on the neutral nature 
the wallpaper should be)
Then It would ask the password with polkit and then copy it somewhere global


-- 
Marco Martin


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