Bug 217738

Summary: Complexity with user switching.
Product: [Unmaintained] kdm Reporter: Apopas <georgas>
Component: generalAssignee: kdm bugs tracker <kdm-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: mat69
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description Apopas 2009-12-07 18:04:06 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.3.4)
Compiler:          gcc-4.4.2 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

Hi,
After 9 years Gnome user I decided to give KDE the oppotunity to show me it's value. Well, it impressed me but I find few things (necessary imho) that I had in Gnome but are absent in KDE.

The thing that I miss in KDE mostly, is an easy switch user plugin. My 60 years old father has real problem when need to go to menu and then hit the switch user button to find himself before a list of half a dozen users (that thing shows the command line logged users as well and that sucks) and when finally he hits the correct button (prey he didn't hit the console user by mistake) he finds himself before a locked session and needs to unlock it (even if his account is passwordless). 
First, isn't practical at all to show the CLI logged in users in the menu. The users that know how/why to switch to command line, don't need the user switching at all, just alt-ctrl-Fx, while the users that don't want/know command line are congused before a lot os users, especially root and can by accident become root as well, or even find themselves in CLI.
Also, the locked sessions shouldn't be are enabled by default and an option to change it is necessary.
Last but not least, a plasma easy switcher would be very comfortable. With Gnome I had a nice face/button on his panel and with a click he got just the graphically logged users, without stupid locked screens.

thanks for your time and your work,
Apopas
Comment 1 Matthias Fuchs 2010-07-18 11:41:17 UTC
This might be what you are searching for: http://flavio.castelli.name/fast-user-switch-plasmoid

If it is please tell that here, so that this bug can be closed.
Comment 2 Oswald Buddenhagen 2012-02-25 20:17:51 UTC
bug 100411 is also relevant

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 89023 ***