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[Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 14-03-06 12:19 PM, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> That's a topic that has been discussed between different groups of people
> recently, on merge requests [1] and bug reports, and it feels like we should
> have the discussion on a common place/together, to decide what is best, and all
> do the same thing.
> 
> Summary of the issue:
> - in unity8 we use the greeter as a lock screen
> - we want to have informations from the users available on the lock screen
> ("currently playing song" for example)
> - we need a way to get those informations from the session to the greeter

Wouldn't a better design be to have the lock screen in the user's session? That
way each user can have their own lock screen, and it can access the user's data
without any security issue and difficulty in transferring data between different
security contexts...

Marc.