[plasmashell] [Bug 455104] Please consider not entering a space character when space bar is pressed to wake up the login screen

[Jiří Wolker]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455104

Jiří Wolker <woljiri at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Jiří Wolker <woljiri at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Rodney Gedda from comment #4)
> In fact, pressing any character key inputs that character, not just space.
> 
> So I would recommend using any keyboard input to "wake up" first then land
> you in the password input field.
> 
> How many people would actually want to start typing in their password before
> they can see the characters being entered?

I strongly disagree with you. I am one of the people who just sit down at the
computer and type in the password while the screen is off (or showing the clock
with password field hidden), if I think it is safe.

I am a bit more comfortable with just typing the password, without doing
anything else. If your suggestion would become implemented, it could take me
probably weeks to re-learn the login procedure. For me, it is “reflex action”.
I do not think about that I am going to enter the password. I simply see the
login screen on my computer, type the password and hit return as if it would be
a single operation.

My suggestion is: Add an option to the system settings for that. Maybe three
options: type immediately everything, ignore whitespace chars, and do not type
the first char (when the password field is hidden).

And there is also another reason for not-ignoring the first keypress: With some
screens, it really takes ages (relatively: tens of seconds) to bring them back
to working state when they are turned off using DPMS. Imagine the user that
presses a key, waits for the screen to show the password field and then typing
the password instead of just typing it and letting the screen to start up while
they are typing. When done frequently, it can take a lot of time. There is one
operating system that does this thing in the worst possible way: You press a
key, then the user must wait for the password field and only then the operating
system responds to the user's input. When the password is typed before the
field is shown, some characters are dropped or even typed at wrong position
(!).

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