On Sun, 2015-04-26 at 04:30 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Germano Massullo wrote: > > KDE Plasma 5 locks the screen with user password after 5 minutes of > > system being in idle. > > I think that we should disable screenlock as default behaviour for KDE > > Plasma, because it will annoy many users. If anybody needs it, it can be > > easly activated. > > +1. Sorry Lukáš and Rex, but we should really override the upstream default > and revert to the Plasma 4 default here. > > Automatically locking the screen after n minutes of inactivity is inherently > flawed and insecure, because it gives an attacker n minutes of time to take > over your desktop. There is NO alternative to locking your screen manually > when leaving your desktop. Therefore, supporting automatic locking sends the > entirely wrong message. (It lets users get away with laziness, until they > get burned by it.) > > And then there is the annoyance factor already mentioned by other posters. > And the added exceptions for things like video players just make it MORE > likely that the automatic locking the user was relying on will not happen > (e.g., because of an embedded video in some web page in the background). I entirely agree. > The message should be: If you want the screen to be locked, then lock it. It > only takes 2 clicks. Or close the lid if it's a laptop (which seems to be the use case most people are concerned about). Slightly OT: video players can prevent locking, but can they prevent the screen going dark? This happens to me all the time when watching a long video. poc _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
