https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445742
Bug ID: 445742
Summary: Move Lock Screen settings from "Workspace/Desktop
Behavior/Screen Locking" to "Hardware/Power
Management/Energy Saving"
Product: systemsettings
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: ws....@outlook.com
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
Suppose a user wants to disable automatic functions that happen after X amount
of time of inactivity. They will find the Energy Saving page with settings for
Screen Dimming, Switching-off screen and Suspend. They will think that is the
place to control everything that has to do with inactivity... only for their
system to still lock up after a while. Not only that, but they will probably
think that changing the options in Energy Saving isn't doing anything at all,
and it's bugged.
It will take a while to occur to them that there is a setting all the way in
Desktop Behavior that controls it.
This happened to me and I couldn't figure out why for more time than I'd like
to admit. I've also seen other users in social media explaining they didn't
understand why changing the settings in Energy Saving didn't change the time it
took for their screen to lock.
If a user first finds the Energy Saving page, they will think there's no other
place that controls inactivity stuff. Ideally, everything would be moved to a
single place: Energy Saving. But if it can't be moved, a shortcut should be in
Energy Savings that points to Screen Locking, and vice-versa.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20211021
KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.87.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
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