With the old password dialog, the window was opened on top of the screensaver window. Now a fullscreen white QML view is opened with the password dialog elements in the middle, hiding the screensaver completely. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set a screensaver as the screen locker type 2. Lock the screen. Observe screensaver 3. Attempt to unlock the screen Actual Results: White window with QML unlock UI in middle Expected Results: unlock UI on top of screensaver.
this is pretty jarring, especially early in the morning when it is dark in the room.
screensaver and lockscreen are expected to be mutually exclusive, but in theory the lockscreen should show the default wallpaper, not a white window
Created attachment 76389 [details] Subsidiary dark grey background BG Image is taken from the theme. If the theme has no wallpaper, you get a plain background which is white by default. Since "white" is not necessarily the ideal transition from a (likely former turned off, thus) black screen, attached is a patch which alters places a dark grey rect below the image.
Also see bug #312828. The just attached patch does not "fix" the fullscreen locker "issue" claimed in OP, but which i believe is wontfix due to the altered architecture anyway.
the UI should probably do 2 things: * hide after a delay or if the user presses Esc * return when there is user activity as such, i really see this as a dupe of #311116 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 311116 ***
For the dark background see https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/108377/
Git commit 5997f324c8cef97b7f4e1a705b4f560d132ecc90 by Thomas Lübking. Committed on 13/01/2013 at 12:13. Pushed by luebking into branch 'KDE/4.10'. sublay the theme wallpaper with a dark background REVIEW: 108377 M +7 -0 ksmserver/screenlocker/greeter/themes/org.kde.passworddialog/contents/ui/main.qml http://commits.kde.org/kde-workspace/5997f324c8cef97b7f4e1a705b4f560d132ecc90
Git commit c74cc6e9df97c0acbcfe8f8a3b213109db4f6604 by Thomas Lübking. Committed on 13/01/2013 at 12:13. Pushed by luebking into branch 'master'. sublay the theme wallpaper with a dark background REVIEW: 108377 M +7 -0 ksmserver/screenlocker/greeter/themes/org.kde.passworddialog/contents/ui/main.qml http://commits.kde.org/kde-workspace/c74cc6e9df97c0acbcfe8f8a3b213109db4f6604