[maemo-users] Lock, sleep, power-down

[From: David Dyer-Bennet]

On Thu, June 5, 2008 06:13, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 03:36:00PM -0600, Mark wrote:
>> Why didn't they just force owners login to their tablet like you do in
>> most Linux distros? If they used the same kind of login process as
>> desktop Linux, users could choose whether to autologin if they don't
>> care about security or require logging in if they do.
>
> Most users, given a choice between convenience and security, will choose
> convenience.

Generally true, but it shouldn't be encouraged.  And those of us who *do*
care about security are often the early adopters, and we have a lot to do
with establishing a product's reputation.  I like to think :-).

>> Between that and
>> the "lock device" feature (which should also have a timeout feature to
>> automatically lock it after a selectable period of inactivity and
>> would work like screensavers that can be set to require a login to
>> exit the screensaver)
>
> Um, doesn't it?  Control panel -> Device lock -> Autolock period.

I've got the autolock working, yes.
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