On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Stef Walter <st...@gnome.org> wrote: > On 04/27/2012 01:00 AM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Tomas Frydrych >> <tf+lists.gn...@r-finger.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On 25/04/12 23:38, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: >>>> Technically, the code for fading out the screen and displaying the >>>> lock screen when the user becomes active again will be added to GNOME >>>> Shell, and the gnome-screensaver will no longer be used. >>> >>> There are security implications of this proposed change. In the event >>> the Shell crashes, you cannot make any assumptions, and therefore any >>> guarantees, about how much of the state will be recovered, and hence >>> that lock will not be compromised. Even if the Shell does restart >>> successfully, the content of the desktop is visible for the time it >>> takes the Shell to restart, which is by no means negligible. >>> >>> Considering how often Mutter crashes (I see about 3-4 crashes an hour), >> >> Bug references? We should not be crashing 3-4 times per hour. > > 3-4 times a day for me. Here are some bugs, they're in the Red Hat > bugzilla because they were filed with Fedora Abrt. These hardly > represent the number of crashes though, because nearly always "the > backtrace isn't usable". > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=791130
This is fixed in 3.4.1. http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=0a7968a2e55cb9c7063d65663d5bff504724f7a8 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=809365 Looks like it was an accountsservice bug that's been fixed? > FWIW on some of my machines, the screensaver is already pretty funny > security-wise. When coming back from sleep. It shows the desktop screen > for several seconds before locking the screen. Sometimes it only locks > one monitor. Sometimes the lock dialog isn't visible. I haven't started > to try and debug these issues. If I remember correctly, this was a SELinux policy issue. It should be fixed in upgrades-testing. > I guess one way of looking at that is that hopefully the Lock screen > refresh will solve some of these problems :P > > Cheers, > > Stef -- Jasper _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list