All, A quick follow-up to suggest that clearing the Tails screen saver/slide show require the key-press combination used to invoke it. A passer-by could otherwise restore the screen and reveal Tails with a single key press.
This should perhaps be the case even when an admin password is set, as Tails' password entry screen doesn't look very "Windows". regards, alienpup alienpup wrote: > All, > > I believe hiding Tails' UI would prove too resource intensive and > ultimately futile. It just can't be done and maintained well enough to > fool sharp-eyed observers. After all, the first thing a passer-by does > is study your screen. It's human nature and very hard to resist. > > Tails users could however benefit greatly from a simple slideshow > screen saver that can be invoked instantly. Tails could ship with a few > uninteresting "stock" images and provide users the option of adding > more. Once invoked, Tails could not be distinguished from Windows. > Screen locking would remain dependent upon setting an admin password. > > regards, > alienpup > > > geb wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Hans: > > > Dear list, > > > > > > I am wondering, why tails no more get an undercover mode. IMO it is very > > > dangerous for users, if their window manager is not looking like the > > > normal > > > window manager used everywhere, especially in countries, where any > > > "strange" > > > desktop might cause attention on authorities. > > > > > > This problem could be easily solved. Most users are running either > > > windows or > > > MacOS. For windows you can just use XFCE + kali-undercover, for > > > Mac-design > > > there are several windowmanagers available (there is coming ElementaryOS > > > in my > > > mind). > > > > > > As you do only need the window-manager design, there should be no risk > > > change. > > > > > > I might remember, tails got this option some years ago, but somehow this > > > is > > > gone. Dunno why.... > > > > This camouflage option has been removed because the theme that proposed > > this feature was not working anymore, and because of lack of resources > > to work on it. You can read a bit more about that here : > > > > https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/10830 > > > > https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/blueprints/-/wikis/update_camouflage_for_jessie/ > > > > Unfortunately, the problem is not that easy to solve. As you can see on > > the previous links, reintroducing this feature using gnome themes would > > requires lot of work (at least at the moment these links were updated). > > > > Proposing other desktop-environments may looks simpler, but it would > > requires even more work, for UX, documentation, testing, ensuring > > everything works fine, keeping the image small enough etc, not only when > > integrating these desktop environments, but also for every releases. > > > > That said, maybe things have improved since last updates on the previous > > links. So if you are interested to give a deeper look of how it could be > > done in practice, that may be a small but important step :-). I did a > > quick testing of https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1216281/ (which is nice > > also because it has been maintained since a few years now). It seems the > > menus are only for Cinnamon, but maybe I did not tested it enough. > > > > -- > > geb > > _______________________________________________ > > Tails-dev mailing list > > Tails-dev@boum.org > > https://www.autistici.org/mailman/listinfo/tails-dev > > To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to > > tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org. > > > _______________________________________________ > Tails-dev mailing list > Tails-dev@boum.org > https://www.autistici.org/mailman/listinfo/tails-dev > To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to > tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org. > _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://www.autistici.org/mailman/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.
