Bug 538372

Summary: "Leave message" does not work
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Need Real Name <lsof>
Component: gnome-screensaverAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: low    
Version: 14CC: adam, akirosspower, anonymous_interface, beland, bugzilla.redhat, dmaxel, fkooman, jmccann, leer33, linux_nut, lsof, mailboost, mikefbenson, pete, redhat-bugzilla, rstrode, steven.chapel, zing
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Description Need Real Name 2009-11-18 12:15:05 UTC
When I lock my screen I get a few options, one is "leave message".

When I click this button, I get a text field, and two buttons: save and cancel.

If I enter some text and click save, this text goes somewhere (presumably it is saved).

But when I unlock the screen I get none of these saved messages.

Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2009-11-18 16:06:55 UTC
hmm i wonder if this is related to us switching notification bubble designs...

Comment 2 Need Real Name 2010-01-05 13:51:29 UTC
This is actually a data loss bug believe it or not. Shall I up severity?

Can we disable it in the meantime?

Comment 3 Christopher Beland 2010-01-08 08:48:05 UTC
Confirmed with gnome-screensaver-2.28.0-8.fc12.i686.  I don't see any guidance on severity settings for data loss bugs, so I'll set this to Urgent to be on the safe side, and ask around.

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Comment 4 François Kooman 2010-05-10 22:36:01 UTC
Still there in Fedora 13 RC#2. Colleagues make excellent testers ;-)

gnome-screensaver-2.30.0-1.fc13.x86_64

Comment 5 Benjamin Petrin 2010-06-11 20:51:59 UTC
Confirmed with gnome-screensaver-2.30.0-1.fc13.i686

Comment 6 John Poelstra 2010-07-06 23:34:02 UTC
Removing 'depends' on 'F14blocker'.  This is a Fedora 13 bug.

Comment 7 mailboost 2010-08-10 16:22:01 UTC
Still in fedora 13 final x86_64. 
gnome-screensaver-2.30.0-1.fc13.x86_64

In my opinion this is a severe bug expecially at work where colleagues leave messages believing you read them!!!

Comment 8 Need Real Name 2010-08-10 17:39:05 UTC
This is a data loss bug. It doesn't seem to be treated like one though :/

Comment 9 Keith G. Robertson-Turner 2010-09-01 17:56:17 UTC
Well apparently this feature has been marked for depreciation upstream, as "it hasn't worked for months and no one noticed":

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619954

Always nice to be kept in the loop.

Pity, as this was the only feature that actually differentiated it from xscreensaver. Well that, and it's lack of advanced screensaver preferences.

Meanwhile, if this feature doesn't work, and there is no intention of ever fixing it, can we please patch it out completely, right now, so people don't leave messages that will never be read.

Perhaps we could just replace the message box with a non-interactive dialogue which reads "Please write your message on a Post-it®, and stick it to the monitor".

Comment 10 Need Real Name 2010-10-14 07:23:27 UTC
Still broken in the shiny new release of Fedora 14.

-> ! This is a data loss bug ! <-

Comment 11 Danny Stieben 2011-01-30 09:21:26 UTC
Yep, still broken as of today in F14. Household members occasionally used the feature when it still worked, but since it doesn't we haven't had the pleasure of using it.

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Comment 13 Steve Chapel 2011-06-02 17:28:16 UTC
As others have commented, the leave message feature is still broken in Fedora 14.

Comment 14 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-06-21 16:00:13 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

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