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.
hmm i wonder if this is related to us switching notification bubble designs...
This is actually a data loss bug believe it or not. Shall I up severity? Can we disable it in the meantime?
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. --- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
Still there in Fedora 13 RC#2. Colleagues make excellent testers ;-) gnome-screensaver-2.30.0-1.fc13.x86_64
Confirmed with gnome-screensaver-2.30.0-1.fc13.i686
Removing 'depends' on 'F14blocker'. This is a Fedora 13 bug.
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!!!
This is a data loss bug. It doesn't seem to be treated like one though :/
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".
Still broken in the shiny new release of Fedora 14. -> ! This is a data loss bug ! <-
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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As others have commented, the leave message feature is still broken in Fedora 14.
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