Lock screen gives no indication that session is locked rather than logged out

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Problem occurs with: unity 7.1.2+14.04.20140321-0ubuntu1, Ubuntu Trusty
Does not occur with: Ubuntu 13.10

1. On a system where yours is the only user account, lock the screen.

What you see: There is no way to tell that you are still logged in.

What you should see: It is obvious that you are still logged in.

This is a regression. It will likely lead to confusion and support calls, as people think the Lock function has logged them out (discarding unsaved documents, cancelling downloads, and so on) rather than just locking the session.

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

I guess showing an arrow on the top-left corner has it happens on the greeter is enough, isn't it?

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

Top-left-corner of the user prompt, I mean

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

That would be better than nothing. But it would change the triangles from something only people on multi-user systems need to notice and understand, to something that everyone who ever locks their session needs to notice and understand. I doubt many people notice them in the first place.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.