Comment 12 for bug 1369457

Ah thanks - didn't know about those options! Disabled both now :-)

> The use case for launching apps from the lockscreen is that as a user, you think "oh I want to go to facebook",
> click facebook, we start the app in the background so that once you enter your passcode, it's sitting there ready.
> Again, Design and Security have already talked about this feature and were planning to leave it as is.
> Please let's not have a title-editing fight over this.

The fact that I raised this bug demonstrates that I was not aware of these discussions. Personally, I cannot see a huge benefit in allowing this behaviour. Maybe if a particular app is very slow to start and/or if a user has a particularly long pass-phrase this could be marginally useful?

But to counter that, what if you have an app that sucks down huge amounts of data on startup and a nefarious user starts the app without your knowledge when you happen to put your phone down for a minute? That would be more than a little annoying if 3G charges applied. It could be argued that the risk of that scenario playing out is small, but nevertheless the potential is there.

> The use case for re-ordering apps is *likely to be* (Design hasn't actually chimed in) that the person doing the
> re-ordering is overwhelmingly likely to be the owner, rather than some malicious attacker that just loves to re-order
> your icons.
Again, I personally don't see that feature as particularly compelling, hence I've turned it off :)

If these features are perceived as generally useful are we planning on introducing them to desktop Ubuntu?

Regardless of whether we decide to leave these features as enabled or not, maybe we should ensure they form part of the initial setup wizard?