Bug 668241 - Poor UX in interaction with suspend/resume 'Time has expired'
Summary: Poor UX in interaction with suspend/resume 'Time has expired'
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-screensaver
Version: 14
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-01-09 11:10 UTC by cam
Modified: 2012-08-16 20:28 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-08-16 20:28:11 UTC
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Description cam 2011-01-09 11:10:07 UTC
The screen is locked after periods of inactivity, or immediately if the machine suspends and resumes. There seems to be some occasional odd behaviour on resume.

Sometimes the background appears, a second later the password dialog appears and this seems normal.

The odd behaviour is that the background and dialog box appear immediately with the password field blank. The user feedback field has a message about 'Time has expired' and there is a short delay where the dialog box is unresponsive; it is closed automatically and reopened, then the user can proceed as per the first case described above. If there is no user input the screen blanks waiting for further input. This interaction and delay is annoying and gives a poor user experience.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-screensaver-2.30.2-2.fc14.i686
gnome-shell-2.31.5-7.fc14.i686 in use
Also using xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-11.20100826git065576d.fc14.i686
mesa-dri-drivers-experimental-7.9-5.fc14.i686


How reproducible:
Intermittent but common, possibly 30% of resumes.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.configure to lock on suspend
2.suspend/resume
  
Actual results:
Possibly there is some processing before suspend is complete, eg keypress or keycode detected that triggers the timer on the dialog to start; on resume sufficient time has elapsed before any input and a timeout condition is erroneously detected.

Expected results:
Consistent behaviour (normal behaviour is OK).
Timely presentation of a working unlock dialog (delays are bad).
Removal of jargon 'Time has expired' is not a useful or meaningful message to the user, and in combination with a forced delay and period of non-responsiveness it is frustrating. Is there some way of auto-cancelling the dialog and giving the user a warning that this is happening, much like the expiring clock on desktop notifications?

Additional info:
This was seen on a medium powered machine (netbook with 3Gb RAM, SSD, Atom N270) and may be different on other faster or slower machines.

Comment 1 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-06-21 15:59:46 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

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