When the look and feel lockscreen theme failed to load for whatever reason,
it is supposed to fall back to a built-in theme to not lock the user out of the system.
The fallback did not work, however, and made the greeter crash with an invalid package
access, trapping you in an endless kscreenlocker_greet reboot loop.
REVIEW: 121333
Logging out from the locked screen is impossible. Logging out means
interaction with the session due to the session manager. The session
manager asks all applications to quit and applications are allowed to
ask for example saving changes. The session manager stopps the
logout in this case and asks the window manager to focus this window
and the session manager will only continue the logout once the
application resolved the situation. At any time in this process the
user is still able to abort the logout!
Switching to the application which needs interaction is impossible,
though as the screen is still locked. The result is a seemingly
frozen system as the logout cannot continue and there is no indication
what is going on.
Of course the lock screen cannot unlock the session for the logout as
that would circumvent the security. If the lock screen would unlock
one would just have to click the button and abort the logout really
fast to have the system unlocked. So this is clearly not an option.
The result is: we cannot implement this functionality in a working
and secure manner, so it's better to remove it.
REVIEW: 120577
BUG: 339453
FIXED-IN: 5.1.1
There was a name clash between the signal and the AccelButton.
This work has been sponsored by the City of Munich's LiMux project.
Forward port of kde-workspace ce7746b2dd1426efc627ab17ec8ea9b2eaa1d656
The user switching dialog from the screen locker was destroyed when the
cancel button was pressed. As a result you coudn't open it again.
The screen locker uses a PlasmaComponents.PageStack to show the password input
and user switching dialogs.
When a dialog is popped from the stack it is destroyed by PageStack.
Fix this by turning userSessionsUI into a Component so it is automatically
created.
This work has been sponsored by the City of Munich's LiMux project.
Forward port of kde-workspace 3341db4430026914da4c6b5f90c1ef6920bae9d1
This adds a button that allows toggling keyboard layouts from the
lockscreen. It talks and listens to the KDED's keyboard module.
REVIEW: 119794
BUG: 338518
FIXED-IN: 5.0.2
The lock screen will now show a warning when Caps Lock is enabled, like it used to
in KDE 4 screen locker.
The patch also removes the old X-based Caps Lock detection from greeterapp.cpp and
instead uses the Keystate DataEngine.
REVIEW: 119797
David Edmundson
Kai Uwe Broulik
Pino Toscano
l10n daemon script
Lukáš Tinkl
Martin Gräßlin
Montel Laurent
Marco Martin
Martin Yrjölä
Felix Geyer
Aaron Seigo
Dan Vrátil