Lock Screen has gone

Bug #542585 reported by Ed Hewitt
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Session Menu
Fix Released
Low
Ted Gould
indicator-session (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ken VanDine

Bug Description

Binary package hint: indicator-applet

Why today have the developers decided that lock screen is not needed any more and start screensaver is more important. There is no point to it, why would you want to start screensaver!

Yes, I know that if you configure the screen saver to ask for login when the screen saver is stopped by the user, it will act the same way as lock screen. However, not everyone will have that option checked, making this option useless. It is also confusing for the user to have a start screen saver option.

Put lock screen back!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 20 11:12:20 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/indicator-applet/indicator-applet-session
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: indicator-applet-session 0.3.4-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: indicator-applet
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1317): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (tomboy:1313): Gtk-WARNING **: Inserting action group 'Notebooks' into UI manager which already has a group with this name
 (gnome-screenshot:1706): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_composite: assertion `dest_y >= 0 && dest_y + dest_height <= dest->height' failed
 (f-spot:1730): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_menu_attach_to_widget(): menu already attached to GtkMenuItem
 (f-spot:1730): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: GdkPixbufLoader finalized without calling gdk_pixbuf_loader_close() - this is not allowed. You must explicitly end the data stream to the loader before dropping the last reference.

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Ed Hewitt (edhewitt-deactivatedaccount) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, that seems a bug the entry should dynamically be lock screen or start screensaver. Ted, it seems that has been adding a new string too?

affects: indicator-applet (Ubuntu) → indicator-session (Ubuntu)
Changed in indicator-session (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ted Gould (ted)
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The vcs log indicates the change has been made on purpose but it doesn't make sense, users don't want the screensaver to lock their computer for them but want to be able to do that manually when needed

Changed in indicator-session (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
Ted Gould (ted)
Changed in indicator-session (Ubuntu):
assignee: Ted Gould (ted) → Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
Changed in indicator-session:
assignee: nobody → Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
Changed in indicator-session (Ubuntu):
assignee: Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) → nobody
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-session - 0.2.6-0ubuntu2

---------------
indicator-session (0.2.6-0ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/control:
    - change the gdm Depends to a Suggests since it's not really needed
  * debian/patches/restore_lock_screen.patch:
    - don't change "lock screen" in "start screensaver" for users who don't
      use lock on screensaver action by default, the behaviour change was
      breaking freeze and letting some users without a way to lock their
      computer screen (lp: #542585)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:50:35 +0100

Changed in indicator-session (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Ed Hewitt (edhewitt-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

An update the indicator-session on Thursday 25 March, changed back the fix. It now says Start screensaver again and not lock screen.

Changed in indicator-session (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) wrote :

This was fixed again in 0.2.7-0ubuntu2

Changed in indicator-session (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Ted Gould (ted)
Changed in indicator-session:
status: New → Confirmed
assignee: Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) → Ted Gould (ted)
importance: Undecided → Low
David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in indicator-session:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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