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By: marketing

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By: dryfit

dryfit — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:52:07 +0000

For webcam login i see a securty problem. What will it do if you hold a picture from someone in front of the webcam?

By: F3lip3

F3lip3 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:53:20 +0000

Maybe Opencv is a good alternative for webcam support. Opencv offers a good image process and it’s easy to use in Qt, I have a little modification for system settings in “Password & User Account” section, this modification allow to use a webcam for take a picture and use in your profile.

By: sandsmark

sandsmark — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:22:38 +0000

@Enrico Ros: QtMultimedia is a redundant API that I’m not entirely certain should exist at all, considering that they already had Phonon.
Making Arxin work on multiple distros and include it in kdeadmin or something would probably “solve” your “unified control center” thingy? Or maybe use Pardus’ tools instead (I think they have something similar).

@collinm: That would be horrible from a security POV, since anyone looking at your screen would easily be able to see your “password”.

By: collinm

collinm — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:42:01 +0000

instead of type a password, that could be fine to click on different area of the kdm background image
this kind of application existed on palm

any comment?

By: J. Janz

J. Janz — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:18:55 +0000

Well, first of all, thank you for the mention (I feel flattered ) and, taking advantage of it, my whole point is exposed on that comment (maybe you, Enrico, could please link it to the mention on the post, once it’s here anyway), http://www.enricoros.com/blog/2009/12/gift-a-cool-idea/#comment-193 . See you.

By: Mark Kretschmann

Mark Kretschmann — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:36:19 +0000

Enrico, I’m extremely interested in your “Raytraced UI” proposal. Would love to read more about that.

Thanks dude, some very nice ideas there

Regards, Mark.

By: Enrico Ros

Enrico Ros — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:15:17 +0000

@sandsmark: you have good points, I only have to add that:
* innovation is there when grandma can use it, right? maybe the hardest part of face/finger authentication is to get it enterprise-ready and push it to trunk and make it easy to use those. this is still an open challenge then.
* the webcam stuff is harder than it seems: you may want to use the webcam in 2 different apps (I do!, try fotowall and skype, or a flash plugin, for example) and if you look closely (see $QT/src/multimedia/video) you may find out that a Phonon only implementation may not be the rightest thing to do.
* unified control center: just because Arch integrates, it doesn’t mean that we mandate or allow easy integration with systemsettings. many advocates that “do the frontend and leave the backend to the distro” may have great results in terms of integration.

@Luca: although your POV may be a little biased, I’m *strongly* in favor of this

By: Luca Beltrame

Luca Beltrame — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:54:07 +0000

I should point out that going the route of KDE Brainstorm is preferred rather than filing wishlist items on BKO (approved and high-voted ideas end up on BKO, anyway).

By: sandsmark

sandsmark — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:24:51 +0000

There is already KDM support for pam-face-authentication, thanks to a GSoC project. And there is already a guy from Red Flag that has working and nice fingerprint support for KDM, probably just waiting for the 4.4 release. I would love to see this in trunk, though, not rotting away in some third-party repository.
And we are getting webcam support in Phonon, thanks to Trevor Fischer, hard at work.
And if you use Arch Linux, you get your “unified control center” more or less, thanks to Arxin, which integrates into SystemSettings (it is installed by default with Chakra).
Unified Theme management sounds like an awful lot of work, but might be very neat.
Dragging windows by clicking anywhere I don’t think I will like, I mis-click enough as it is.
With raytraced UI I don’t know what you’re talking about, but I don’t really think the iPhone UI is very “cool”.