hi ... as promised, i collected the ideas for screen locking in Plasma Workspaces 2 on the wiki:
http://community.kde.org/Plasma/screenlocker
further comments, ideas, etc. are welcome and I expect that those points will
refine considerably over time.
also, in the aseigo/qmlkrunner branch of kde-workspace i pushed some changes
yesterday that add a switchUser dbus API to ksmserver. now when switch user is
called, the screen first locks and then shows the switchUser UI.
this brings a few subtle changes:
* it relies on the theme to have a switch user UI. if it doesn't ... the
screen just locks. there is currently no way for external components (e.g.
kickoff or other launchers) to know that this is the case and to therefore hide
the user switching feature if the locker doesn't provide it. right now that is
a hypothetical situation only, but will need addressing at some point.
* the screen locks. :) previously, one would pick an existing session or
approve starting a new one and then it would go through the whole process. now
the screen locks first ... even if you change your mind and hit 'cancel', you
have to enter your password to get back to the desktop. i'm still debating
whether or not this is actually a problem or not.
it's still a work in progress, so input is welcome.
--
Aaron J. Seigo
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