Hi, On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Frederic Peters <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
