Re: 3.6 Feature: Lock Screen

[Jeremy Bicha <jbicha ubuntu com>]

On 25 April 2012 18:38, Marina Zhurakhinskaya <marinaz redhat com> wrote:
> Technically, the code for fading out the screen and displaying the lock
> screen when the user becomes active again will be added to GNOME Shell, and
> the gnome-screensaver will no longer be used. The lock screen will be
> displayed within the same user session to enable the display of
> notifications. The lock screen will communicate with GDM via DBus to get
> authentication results.
>
> The look of the login screen will be changed too to have both look the
> same. The login screen is already implemented as part of the GNOME Shell
> code, and the common components will be shared, where possible.

When you say "gnome-screensaver will no longer be used", what is your
plan for GNOME Fallback users? Also, have you thought about how this
would work for GNOME Shell users who happen to use LightDM or KDM or
something else?

And I wonder how this will affect Unity and Ubuntu 12.10. There's an
Ubuntu goal to use LightDM for handling the lock screen but I don't
know the technical details with that (whether it still needed
gnome-screensaver or not). I guess the bigger question is are you
really trying to deprecate and abandon gnome-screensaver in 5 months
or did I misunderstand?

Jeremy