timed login countdown is set to 30 after making action

[Oleg Vaskevich]

Hello, I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 (upgraded from 7.10) with gdm version 2.20.6-0ubuntu2.

To reproduce this bug, change the Timed Login value to 10, for example, and logout. The timer does start down from 10, but make any action such as a keypress or clicking on the screen and the timer starts back at 30. Instead, it should start at 10 again.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545292

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

upstream comment

"This seems a feature of GDM rather than a bug.

For gdmlogin, refer to the code gdm/gui/gdmlogin.c in the function
gdm_timer_up_delay

For gdmgreeter, refer to the code gdm/gui/greeter/greeter_item_timed.c in the
function in a similar function gdm_timer_up_delay.

It seems that GDM assumes that if you start typing, that it should reset the
timer to at least 30 seconds to give the user a more reasonable chance to
successfully interact with the dialogs.

I don't feel strongly that this "feature" is meaningful. If someone wanted to
rewrite this code so that it is smarter or works better, we can discuss. Also
might be nice to move such common code into the gdm/gui/gdmcommon.c file rather
than having duplicate code in both the gdmlogin and gdmgreeter codebase."

do you really consider the behaviour as buggy?

[Oleg Vaskevich (olegv)]

Well, if the user set it to 10 secs they probably want it to be 10 seconds.

Also, the actual timing is off. For example during the countdown, gdm auto logs the user in after 8 seconds, so the timing is still off.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

users want 10 seconds in standard case, but if they decide to start typing an username that's probably not to a race against the counter, some setups have a 3 seconds timer there which is an almost autologin but let the user do an action in case he wants to choise an another user for example, thinking about it your suggestion doesn't seem to make really sense and would break such usecases

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

is that still an issue in karmic or lucid?