Re: Moving screen locking away from krunner

2012-12-07 Thread Daniel Nicoletti
2012/12/7 Aaron J. Seigo > ah.. you got the message reversed! > > krunner may crash because it can load random plugins (runners) which may > misbehave; krunner crashing would prevent the screen locker from > activating. > > ksmserver does not load random code (because it has no reason to, and we

Re: Moving screen locking away from krunner

2012-12-07 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday, December 7, 2012 13:13:49 Daniel Nicoletti wrote: > It's just someone said that krunner could crash and we wouldn't > have the session locked, then it was said it was moved to kcmserver > and I got a bit scared of kcmserver crashing now... ah.. you got the message reversed! krunner may

Re: Moving screen locking away from krunner

2012-12-07 Thread Daniel Nicoletti
2012/12/7 Aaron J. Seigo > not only are you late to the discussion, but you apparently have not looked > into how it is done: a separate process is started for the screenlocker / > screensaver. it does not run in the ksmserver process. this is how it was > also > done in krunner .. and kdesktop b

Re: Moving screen locking away from krunner

2012-12-07 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday, December 7, 2012 11:23:42 Daniel Nicoletti wrote: > Sorry for being a bit late to this thread, but I need to say > that moving the screen saver from krunner to ksmserver > was a very bad decision, let me explain why: not only are you late to the discussion, but you apparently have not l

Re: Moving screen locking away from krunner

2012-12-07 Thread Daniel Nicoletti
Sorry for being a bit late to this thread, but I need to say that moving the screen saver from krunner to ksmserver was a very bad decision, let me explain why: - Screen savers can be made by third parties, meaning we can't guarantee their quality - Screen savers might enter in some loop locking

Re: Moving screen locking away from krunner

2012-12-03 Thread Alex Merry
On 03/12/12 14:42, Davide Bettio wrote: > Nice, I missed that change. Is it possible to backport any fix for > plasma-netbook? Hacky fix for old versions of plasma-netbook: http://randomguy3.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/screen-locking-with-the-plasma-netbook-interface/ Alex _

Re: Moving screen locking away from krunner

2012-12-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, December 3, 2012 15:42:53 Davide Bettio wrote: > Hello, > > Quoting Marco Martin : > > in 4.10 is moved in ksmserver > > Nice, I missed that change. Is it possible to backport any fix for > plasma-netbook? no; use 4.10. -- Aaron J. Seigo signature.asc Description: This is a digital

Re: Moving screen locking away from krunner

2012-12-03 Thread Davide Bettio
Hello, Quoting Marco Martin : in 4.10 is moved in ksmserver Nice, I missed that change. Is it possible to backport any fix for plasma-netbook? Bye, Davide Bettio. ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/

Re: Moving screen locking away from krunner

2012-12-03 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 03 December 2012, Davide Bettio wrote: > Hello, > > I think that screen locking should be moved away from krunner for some > reasons: > in 4.10 is moved in ksmserver -- Marco Martin ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https:

Moving screen locking away from krunner

2012-12-03 Thread Davide Bettio
Hello, I think that screen locking should be moved away from krunner for some reasons: 1) When krunner crashes screen locking stops to work, an always working screen locking is really important for security and privacy reasons. 2) it seems that screen locking doesn't work while running