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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Oct 2016
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[Windows] Add menu option to lock workstation to clients

Project Member Reported by joedow@chromium.org, Apr 25 2016

Issue description

This bug is tracking the work needed to add a Lock workstation menu option (similar to how Ctrl + Alt + Del) is handled.  I'm thinking that we'd only want to show it for applicable hosts (non-home SKU windows machines) so there is some logic to show/hide it, the work of injecting it should be easy.

I'm not sure if this is something we would want to add or not based on the balance between usefulness and space used in our UI but I wanted to track it in case we do decide to implement it.
 

Comment 1 by joedow@chromium.org, Apr 25 2016

Components: Services>Chromoting
Do you know if Win+L can be intercepted? I'm wondering if this would be better addressed by the keyboard lock API proposal than a Chromoting-specific UI.

Comment 3 by joedow@chromium.org, Apr 26 2016

I don't think so.  Win+L is a special sequence (compared to the other Win+* sequences) in that you can't reassign it and you can only disable it via a registry key.  From what I read, you can hook it and see that it is sent, but you can't prevent it from being handled by the OS.

I don't think there is a lot of value here as anyone who wishes to lock the workstation can use our C+A+D menu item to bring up the system menu with the Lock action on it, adding a menu item is faster, but I would want to have a cohesive plan of everything we wanted in the UI (and make sure this fits) to avoid UI clutter.
Labels: M-53
Status: Available (was: Untriaged)
Let's consider how this fits in to our new UI once that's fleshed out.
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Comment 5 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Jul 12 2016

Labels: -M-53 M-54 MovedFrom-53
Moving this nonessential bug to the next milestone.

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Labels: -M-54 -MovedFrom-53
Status: Untriaged (was: Available)
Status: WontFix (was: Untriaged)
Since we have a method for sending Ctrl+Alt+Del, and that screen has a Lock Workstation option, I don't think this is necessary. Joe, do you remember if this was a customer request or something we thought of ourselves?

Comment 8 by joedow@chromium.org, Oct 11 2016

I don't think it was a specific customer request, this was mainly for convenience since we can't prevent Win+L from affecting the local machine and the CAD option is another hoop to jump through.  Won't fix is perfectly fine unless we find a compelling scenario.

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