Bug#934533: sddm: SDDM is not informative enough: incorrect password merely erased - no message; for correct password, screen remains until desktop is displayed.

[scott092707@aol.com]

Package: sddm
Version: 0.18.0-1
Severity: wishlist

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From: Scott Jacobs <scott092707@aol.com>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: sddm: SDDM is not informative enough: incorrect password merely erased - no message; for correct password, screen remains until desktop is displayed.
Bcc: Scott Jacobs <scott092707@aol.com>
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Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 20:38:57 -0400
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Dear Maintainer,

1. If an incorrect password is entered, the entered password is merely erased.
There is no message "Password Incorrect - please re-enter." or something like
this.
(I cannot remember if it was another version of SDDM shipped with LXQt Lubuntu,
or if it was LightDM (with previous LXDE Lubuntu), but I remember that version
put up a red bar with "Incorrect password" or something similar).

2. If the password is entered correctly, nothing at all happens until the
desktop appears, and wipes out SDDM's window.
Before I got an SSD, it was sometimes 30 seconds or more before anything
happened, and I was initially afraid that the computer had frozen.  Now, it is
still 5-10 seconds that SDDM's window sits there, doing nothing.
I would suggest at least a "Password accepted." message.  The window ought to
disappear (as the user and password entry has completed). Maybe print a series
of dots, or something that indicates that the session is being started, until
the panels and desktop are ready to display.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CRAP
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages sddm depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.118
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.71
ii  libc6                   2.28-10
ii  libgcc1                 1:8.3.0-6
ii  libpam0g                1.3.1-5
ii  libqt5core5a            5.11.3+dfsg1-1
ii  libqt5dbus5             5.11.3+dfsg1-1
ii  libqt5gui5              5.11.3+dfsg1-1
ii  libqt5network5          5.11.3+dfsg1-1
ii  libqt5qml5              5.11.3-4
ii  libqt5quick5            5.11.3-4
ii  libstdc++6              8.3.0-6
ii  libsystemd0             241-5
ii  libxcb-xkb1             1.13.1-2
ii  libxcb1                 1.13.1-2
ii  qml-module-qtquick2     5.11.3-4
ii  x11-common              1:7.7+19
ii  xserver-xorg [xserver]  1:7.7+19

Versions of packages sddm recommends:
ii  haveged                                1.9.1-7
ii  libpam-systemd                         241-5
ii  sddm-theme-debian-elarun [sddm-theme]  0.18.0-1
ii  sddm-theme-debian-maui [sddm-theme]    0.18.0-1

Versions of packages sddm suggests:
pn  libpam-kwallet5           <none>
pn  qtvirtualkeyboard-plugin  <none>

-- debconf information:
  shared/default-x-display-manager: sddm
  sddm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/sddm