Description of problem: As much as everyone loves the appearance of security, I think having the screensaver lock on by default is frustrating for new users. I've lost count of the number of times I've gone to get something to eat or been busy talking to someone and then have had to put in my password to unlock the screen. I've watched people in my family use Fedora and I ask them if it's frustrating to need to keep putting in their passwords, they say it is and they hadn't even realised there is a way to turn it off. Most users probably don't need this security feature, so I think it should be disabled by default.
So we could keep flipping the preference every other release, but i don't think it really buys us anything. The preference really depends on the use case. This sort of belongs in the same bucket as autologin, I guess. For the single-user case it might make sense to turn on autologin in gdm and turn off screen locking. Retitling.
I don't think this has anything to do with single/multi-user. Even in multi-user environments (for example a shared family computer, or a small office) I trust everyone else to be able to close anything I left open and log out. The security the screen lock provides is extremelly small, given that as long as someone gets access within 10 minutes of you leaving they avoid the lock entirely, and I think that security-conscious users usually know enough about computers to find the tickbox that turns the locking on.
Punting until Fedora 8.
One possibility that Matthias just brought up is that we could provide a [x] show this dialog again type thing like we have on gnome-keyring dialogs, etc.
Not going to address this before F8.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
I got a similar problem in Fedora 10. See bug #452419: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452419 gnome-keyring asks for password if gdm autologin is enabled. This bug has been around for a while and is really breaking NetworkManager usability for many use cases that you only need to power on and connect to a DSL network automatically.
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