Re: 3.6 Feature: Lock Screen

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 04/26/2012 02:27 PM, Jakub Steiner wrote:
> Hi Shaun,

Hello all,

> > I *love* the idea of showing notifications and allowing control of
> > media playback. It's something I've wanted for a very, very long
> > time.
> >
> > But I share Bhaavan's concern with having to physically drag the
> > screen up. It's very cumbersome with a mouse. And aside from being
> > inconvenient, without keyboard-only use it's not accessible.
>
> We briefly touch (pun intended) on keyboard interaction at the bottom
> of the page. You should be able to unroll the curtain with Esc.
>
> > How is the PIN supposed to be set? Will that involve changes to the
> > User Accounts panel?
>
> The login options in the user settings panel is the obvious place
> place for customizing that. We are also working on the initial
> setup*, which would also be the place where this is exposed (but we
> don't have anything to point to at this stage).

While talking about Pins, I thought of what the iPad does when you get
it wrong and it's quite good I think. For my 3 year old son, when he
enters it in incorrectly several times (not just 3 or so), it locks
anyone out for a mater of time, I think it's 1 minute perhaps a few more
(I don't remember).

This might not be a desired feature on a multi-user OS, but for a single
user OS it serves well I think. My son gets the point anyway, he can't
sit there for hours trying and has to ask :)

Is this something we're interested in seeing?

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Regards,
Martyn

Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.