Bug 350684

Summary:	lock window when switching between users is very hard to use
Product:	[Plasma] Breeze	Reporter:	Lauris <lauris>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Development Mailing List <plasma-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	edkasp, germano.massullo, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.3.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Lauris 2015-07-27 21:25:58 UTC

When switching between users or creating new user session in lock screen it would be much easier to use it if it would after clicking "Switch" or "Create" it would go to main screen where you with focus on password. Also would be nice if when dblclicked on icon it would also work just like when you would have clicked button "Switch" button.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select user
2. Click "Switch"


Actual Results:  
Nothing happens (at least visually). You have to click "Cancel" to get back to unlock screen and only than you see that user has actually switched.

Expected Results:  
After clicking "Switch" or double clicking on User icon it would switch to user session and switch to main screen with focus on password input box.

Comment 1 Dirk Heinrichs 2015-08-08 11:31:34 UTC

I second this. How can something that was so easy in KDE 4, can become SOOOO complicated? Took me several minutes(!) to understand. Please make it simple again!

Comment 2 Edmund Kasprzak 2018-02-25 14:14:43 UTC

It's been some time, can you confirm the same in more recent KDE?

To be honest, I'm not sure if I understand the issue correctly.

Using Neon Git Stable, Plasma 5.12.2, KF 5.43.0, Qt 5.10.0 here and can't see a problem here.

When being in lockscreen I can either
1. type password for current use and login
2. Click on "Switch user". If that's clicked:

2.1 - Choose a different user (if another user session is already open in background). Then it opens a password prompt for that user. Typing the password and click on "Switch session" switches to that user.

2.2 - Choose a "New session" and  click "Switch session" (it's like confirmation, the same is typing password in scenario above). It goes back to login screen to create a new session.

2.3 Click on "Back" where I can go back to my original session after typing password.


I can't see anything wrong with that logic.

Comment 3 Dirk Heinrichs 2018-02-25 14:47:56 UTC

Well, if you ask 2,5 years later...

At least for me, who's eanwhile using a newer KDE version, this is not an issue anymore. But I'm not the original author...

Comment 4 Edmund Kasprzak 2018-02-26 11:59:30 UTC

Waiting for more info from original author then.

Comment 5 Lauris 2018-02-27 21:15:50 UTC

In latest versions original issue I had has been fixed.

For me at least there is one more annoying thing in switching users is that if you have logged into one user and from menu select switch user it goes to user selection but you have no way to get back to cancel it if you have actually do not wanted to switch or changed your mind. Only way to get back to original session is to actually log in into same or other user and than do either logout or switch to original session

Comment 6 Nate Graham 2018-02-27 21:32:26 UTC

Thanks for the confirmation that the original issue has been fixed. In a bug tracker, we can only track a single issue with a tingle Bugzilla ticket. Please open a new bug (and mention it here) to track the remaining issue, and see https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting#One_issue_per_bug_report