Re: 3.6 Feature: Lock Screen

[Ray Strode <halfline gmail com>]

Hi,

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org> wrote:
> 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.
Technical details aside, from a user experience point of view, the
user preceived process is very similar.
In my experience, even very techinical people have gotten gdm and
gnome-screensaver confused.

There are some differences.

1) if you're already logged in, you may want to be able to interact
with the lock section in tightly controlled ways
(change tracks on songs, adjust volume, etc)
2) if you're already logged in on a multiuser machine, it's more like
you'll want to unlock the already logged in session, then log in as a
new user (so it makes sense to go straight to the password screen,
where for initial login it may make sense to go straight to a user
list)

My point was just that from an implementation point of view, we can't
jump to the GDM screen, since that will mute any running audio and
cause all sorts of screen flicker.  In the future it may make sense to
do, though.  Especially when we have wayland (so can smoothly switch X
servers). Keep in mind, though, that today, the login screen is
implemented with gnome-shell.  This feature will make the unlock
screen be implemented with gnome-shell.  So the implementations are
converging.

> As Andre wrote, "did this conversation continue somewhere, and what
> were the results?"
No idea.

--Ray