Re: 3.6 Feature: Lock Screen

[Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>]

Ray Strode wrote:

> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
> > Lionel proposes to consider merging the login screen and the lock screen
> > as both are about logging in.
> > In the end Allan wrote "let's continue some place else."
> >
> > Did this conversation continue somewhere, and what were the results?
> >
> > Asking as I think that Lionel has a good point and don't see good
> > arguments against it yet either.
> It doesn't make sense to go to a new login screen because that would
> incur a VT switch, would stop your music from playing etc.  It
> something to reconsider once wayland has been integrated.  At that
> point we'll be well situated, since both are implemented with
> gnome-shell anyway.

I believe the point Lionel made was not about technicalities but about
the design by itself, e.g. why would the process of logging in be
different in the morning when you turn your computer on than in the
afternoon when you walk back to a computer with the screen locked.

As Andre wrote, "did this conversation continue somewhere, and what
were the results?"


        Fred