Re: Proposal for inclusion in desktop: gnome-screensaver

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

Le jeudi 27 octobre 2005 à 11:45 +0200, Rodrigo Moya a écrit :
> On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 09:40 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > Le mercredi 26 octobre 2005 à 23:39 -0200, Matthew Thomas a écrit :
> > > Use case: A child leaves 
> > > the screen locked and goes to bed. Child's mother comes along, unlocks 
> > > the child's account, saves the child's unsaved documents etc, and shuts 
> > > down the computer for the night.
> > 
> > gnome-screensaver should, like gdm, offer to suspend the computer.
> > 
> hmm, where, in the lock dialog? If so, anyone could walk though your
> machine, which might be doing some background work, and suspend it.
> 
> And if you are asking for a password to do it, then, why can't you just
> enter the password, and go to Desktop->Log out, and select suspend from
> that dialog?

There was an interesting proposition for gnome-screensaver to allow to
directly shutdown the computer after x minutes of inactivity (in the
unlock dialog). Assuming this is a good idea, allowing a suspend (also
in the unlock dialog) makes sense to me.

	Xav