Review Request 120577: Remove shutdown option from lockscreen's look and feel

[Martin Klapetek]

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Could we possibly get "Suspend" button instead? Suspend stores the session state into memory and then restores it without any issues (and we lock screen on wakeup anyway); many times I have found my laptop with locked screen and I had to unlock, click the suspend button in the panel only to get it locked again and suspended.

- Martin Klapetek


On Oct. 14, 2014, 7:41 a.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 14, 2014, 7:41 a.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma and Aleix Pol Gonzalez.
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> Repository: plasma-workspace
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> Description
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> Logging out from the locked screen is impossible. Logging out means
> interaction with the session due to the session manager. The session
> manager asks all applications to quit and applications are allowed to
> ask for example saving changes. The session manager stopps the
> logout in this case and asks the window manager to focus this window
> and the session manager will only continue the logout once the
> application resolved the situation. At any time in this process the
> user is still able to abort the logout!
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> Switching to the application which needs interaction is impossible,
> though as the screen is still locked. The result is a seemingly
> frozen system as the logout cannot continue and there is no indication
> what is going on.
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> Of course the lock screen cannot unlock the session for the logout as
> that would circumvent the security. If the lock screen would unlock
> one would just have to click the button and abort the logout really
> fast to have the system unlocked. So this is clearly not an option.
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> The result is: we cannot implement this functionality in a working
> and secure manner, so it's better to remove it.
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> Diffs
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>   lookandfeel/contents/lockscreen/LockScreen.qml 7d730cf1ebd8241dfe1c00a2bef86ec4a3f0212d 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120577/diff/
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> Testing
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> run kscreenlocker_greeter --testing and locked the screen - button is gone.
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> Thanks,
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> Martin Gräßlin
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