Re: 3.6 Feature: Lock Screen

[Marina Zhurakhinskaya <marinaz redhat com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martyn Russell" <martyn lanedo com>
> To: "Jakub Steiner" <jsteiner redhat com>
> Cc: "Shaun McCance" <shaunm gnome org>, desktop-devel-list gnome org
> Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2012 10:35:13 AM
> Subject: Re: 3.6 Feature: Lock Screen
> 
> 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?

Thanks for the idea! It would be up to the designers to decide if this behavior should be added in. If not, it can be made available as an extension.

> 
> --
> Regards,
> Martyn
> 
> Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.
> _______________________________________________
> desktop-devel-list mailing list
> desktop-devel-list gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
>