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Bug 656922 - "Lock screen after" string isn't as clear as it could be
"Lock screen after" string isn't as clear as it could be
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] Screen
3.1.x
Other All
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-08-19 16:19 UTC by Nick Richards
Modified: 2013-01-17 10:18 UTC
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Description Nick Richards 2011-08-19 16:19:25 UTC 
Locking the screen is a good thing. Blanking the screen is a good thing. Preventing the screen from locking for the first 5 or 10 seconds after blanking is also a good thing to prevent annoyance. "Lock screen after: Screen turns off" is not a good thing in either grammer, power or usability terms. "Lock screen after: 30 seconds" is even more egregious, being as it is easily falsifiable for a normal user.

We should do something better than this.
Comment 1 Hylke Bons 2011-08-30 10:27:39 UTC 
Let me add that this is bad in localisation terms as well. e.g. I can't find a sentence in Dutch that will satisfy both the "Screen Turns Off" and "30 minutes" items.

The current translation [0] is done out of context without looking at the widget, so it doesn't even make sense at all. Causing an even more hilarious situation: "Lock screen after: Turn the screen off"

[0] http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-control-center/tree/po/nl.po#n2700
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2011-09-09 09:10:10 UTC 
Any ideas how to solve this?

Should we just make it "30 seconds" to avoid annoyance, and remove the setting from the UI?
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2013-01-17 10:18:38 UTC 
The "screen turns off" option is now gone (as is the brightness & lock panel).