low-hanging fruit

[Jesse Keating]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:02:37 -0400
David Zeuthen <davidz at redhat.com> wrote:

> FWIW, for the first few weeks in Rawhide after F7 IIRC,
> gnome-power-manager used to lock your keyring when resuming after
> suspend. Most people *hated* it. I think you can still turn it on via
> gconf however, yup, it's
> 
> /apps/gnome-power-manager/lock/gnome_keyring_hibernate
> /apps/gnome-power-manager/lock/gnome_keyring_suspend
> 
> with the explanation
> 
>   Whether the GNOME keyring is locked before the computer enters
>   suspend. This means the the keyring will have to be unlocked on
>   resume.
> 
> Personally, I thought it was a horrible feature.

I'm OK with it being locked, if the unlocking the screen saver also
unlocks the keyring, and if there is no screen saver that we timeout
the keyring anyway without activity.  It would be just like sudo, which
if you haven't entered your passphrase in a while you get prompted for
it again.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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