Comment 5 for bug 436724

On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 10:49 +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> I suggest that if someone sets themselves up to log in automatically,
> the "Lock Screen" command is insensitive by default.

Makes sense to me.

> Then, if it is possible to get a User Interface Freeze exception for
> this, I suggest that in the "Users and Groups" settings, the bottom of
> the "Password" section for your user account should have a checkbox,
> "Allow locking the screen (requires password to unlock)". If you are
> using automatic login, the checkbox should be unchecked by default,
> otherwise it should be checked by default. If it is checked, the "Lock
> Screen" item should be sensitive.

I understand this from the user perspective, but from the technical one
I'm not sure how this should be stored. It would be tricky to set a
setting in another user's gconf repository. It would also doesn't seem
like it would be a system level setting.

Anyway, I think we should open another bug for this, as I don't believe
it can be done for 9.10.