Talk:Display Locker

Revision as of 02:50, 28 November 2007

Well borg, you beat me to something that actually works!

If you haven't seen it yet, check out my python prototype of a screen lock program:

http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/User:Quicksand#zedlock

I put this up a few weeks ago. It's intended to be less visual, more tactile/kinetic (i.e., easy to use without looking). I want the locked screen to have information on it eventually, but I haven't gotten around to recoding it in C (with dbus, etc.) in part because neod seemed like kind of a dead-end.

Perhaps some collaboration is in order? I'd LOVE to see a combination graphical unlocker with dbus interfaces to useful info (voicemails, SMSes, GPRS state, etc.) that is both tactile/kinetic and attractive.

--Quicksand

Hi Quicksand :)

I actually had'nt seen your approach before i started my project, but someone in irc pointed to it some days ago. From a functional point of view, more then a simple slide from the bottom to the top isn't needed. I tested my program in my pocket and it seems to lock the phone pretty well. To the graphics: If you grab your phone and you want to simply fast unlock it, it is already unlocked before the graphics even pop up. I personally do not see an advantage in doing some sort of more complicated motion to unlock the screen. Perhaps it could be user defined and used as a password, that would be nice, i guess. However, i just wanted to have a way to lock my phone without going in suspend, so i made this as a fast hack. As you said, neod is a dead thing. I wanted to make a replacement for it Phoned, but Mickeyl pointed out that they allready startet a similar project, so i will join them. However, there will soon be a deamon which will provide a dbus interface for screensavers. I think you should work in this direction, then it will be easy to make some sort of screensaver choose tool for the user and lots of coexisting screensavers.

I think, if you make your program sufficient configureable it can actually be exactly used as mine, so my display locker would not be needed than and we could throw it away. If this isn't possible i will maintain it as a simple and fast unlock program. I will definitly work on more low level programs in the future, so i cant help you with your tool. Of course you can use my code or the images (they are not from me anyway) or ask me things or whatever. ;-)

cheers, Olaf