[Messaging menu] When the passcode is on/set I shouldn't be able to reply to text messages

[Christina Li]

Current situation:
When the passcode is on/set, I shouldn't be able to reply to my text messages as my phone is considered lock.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Text message received
2. Messaging menu via indicators
3. Tap to expand a missed message
4. Text box appeared, start typing message
5. Send

Desired solution:
when the passcode is on/set, the user should only be able to view the missed messages. Tapping on a message should take me to the passcode screen and after keying the PIN, it should take the user directly to the messaging thread in the messaging app.

[Lars Karlitski (larsu)]

I don't think the messaging menu is the right place to solve this. Unity knows whether the screen is locked and can disallow access to the indicators in this case.

Or do we want access to some indicators but not others?

[kevin gunn (kgunn72)]

actually this feels like its really the responsibility of the greeter. as well, we need to have the greeter split from the unity8 process before we turn on true locking (required pin entry) so as to avoid making anyone feeling secure before its really there.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Unity8 provides everything needed for the messaging menu to handle this. The EntryIsLocked property (tells whether the user has a password set) on the /list DBus object and the IsActive property (tells whether the greeter is running) on the / DBus property of com.canonical.UnityGreeter.