[FFe] Upgrade to light-locker 1.4.0
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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light-locker (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Bug Description
Recently we released light-locker 1.4.0. This release contains one new feature ("late locking") and one new option for an existing feature ("lock on suspend").
The new feature "late locking" is a nice improvement for users of timed locking (i.e. lock the screen after X seconds), as it allows for e.g. music-playback to continue until the screen is woken up from the screensaver state and the user gets redirected to the un/lock-screen. This is one of the main issues (apart from the screen-flickering) that people complain about when locking via lightdm with VT switching. So, to give an example for this feature, the user sets the screensaver-
This feature is optional though and it hasn't been decided whether it would even be activated by default in Xubuntu. But it would be a very good addition and give especially users of single-user environments/
The option to lock on suspend is also quite helpful, especially for users who only want to lock their session when doing so consciously (i.e. by executing "light-
While it may seem that this feature is very new, it was developed in a separate branch first upstream and received testing there (with all kinds of graphics drivers to make sure e.g. the screensaving works). It was then merged to master and after the 1.3.0 development release we waited a bit to give translators time to catch up. (Note: Since not all languages we'd like to have been translated so far, it's possible that we'll do a maintenance 1.4.1 release adding more translations. What will be more important to end-users though is the graphical frontend through which light-locker can be controlled in Xubuntu, light-locker-
This package installed in Xubuntu by default and upgrading to 1.4.0 in Trusty has been discussed with the Xubuntu team and confirmed by the Xubuntu Project Lead.
This upgrade does *not* have any effect on greeters that would be used as un/lock-screens (such as unity-greeter or lightdm-
Attaching the packaging for this release.
light-locker (1.4.0-0ubuntu1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
* New upstream release (lp: #1296456) settings to Recommends (lp: #1289563)
* debian/control: Add light-locker-
-- Sean Davis <email address hidden> Sun, 23 Mar 2014 13:56:20 -0400
This is a debdiff... 1.2.1-0ubuntu1. dsc 1.4.0-0ubuntu1. dsc
From light-locker_
To light-locker_
This package has been added to this PPA: /launchpad. net/~smd- seandavis/ +archive/ testing
https:/
Build logs: /launchpadlibra rian.net/ 170476946/ buildlog_ ubuntu- trusty- i386.light- locker_ 1.4.0-0ubuntu1_ UPLOADING. txt.gz /launchpadlibra rian.net/ 170476947/ buildlog_ ubuntu- trusty- amd64.light- locker_ 1.4.0-0ubuntu1_ UPLOADING. txt.gz
i386: https:/
amd64: https:/
This package has been installed and tested, installation (upgrade) logs will be included in next attachment.