Lockscreen multiscreen behavior

[Martin Gräßlin]

Am 2015-06-22 06:35, schrieb Sebastian Kügler:
> On Sunday, June 21, 2015 23:49:32 Alexander Potashev wrote:
>> 2015-06-17 6:30 GMT+03:00 Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin at kde.org>:
>> > When we redid the lockscreen to be in QML with the lock always shown we
>> > did
>> > it that way on purpose. The main problem is that we don't know which
>> > screen
>> > the user is expecting it to be on. Even more we don't know whether the
>> > primary screen is actually the user's primary screen. We cannot expect
>> > users to configure it as they use it.
>> 
>> Can we put all the screens in clone mode when screen is locked? This
>> way the user will see the mouse pointer and the password input focused
>> on any screen.
> 
> I fear this will be a very jarring user experience as long as we're on 
> X11.
> Screen switching is a very painful, slow and error prone process. It's 
> also
> pretty much impossible to make it look neat.

Also on Wayland we won't be able to do that for pretty much the same 
reason combined with "there is no screen cloning </jedihandmove>". 
(Cloning is an error prone process which I won't implement in KWin).

Cheers
Martin