Community-edition: [Feature Request] Away Lock

[rd-su]

Hi,

Can you make an option to auto-block Rambox after a specified time interval of inactivity?

Something like Signal gave on their android app.

Thanks!

Rambox 0.4.2
Electron 1.3.5
win32 x64 10.0.10586

[saenzramiro]

I tried to do this but the libraries for Node JS that provide this functionality are not stable. I think we will need to wait until we find a library to handle this.

[rd-su]

Thanks for let us know.

Keep the good work!

[andrey-yantsen]

Can anyone please explain me, what is the reason to have away lock in desktop application? If you would like to protect your chats — just lock your computer. Almost any OS can do it with easy-to-remember hotkey.
Also, you can configure your computer to auto-lock after few minutes of inactivity.

[rd-su]

It's useful if you share your computer account at your home or work...

[andrey-yantsen]

Hey, you shouldn't hide anything on your home computer :) Anyway: it's much better to have different users (at work or even at home). IMO only couple types of apps should be able to lock on your desktop: your password manager and any money-related staff. Multi-userness is awesome! People can have different wallpapers, and even different OS behavior preferences — it all can be done with multiple users. You can even forbid your wife to install applications! :)
Also, if you're caring about your chat's privacy — don't you care about privacy in other parts of computer usage? Even your web-browser knows much more than Rambox about your activity.
Most stand-alone messaging apps I know also have no lock-compatibility: Slack, Skype, even thousands ICQ clients, all of them relies on OS in case of protecting your privacy.

[rd-su]

I know what you are talking about, but to give you an example, I need to share my desktop, through Remote Desktop, and sometimes they could click on Rambox by accident, and see something private...

Or I could live my account unlocked, and could define a less away lock timer than auto windows lock timer...

For me is useful.

[andrey-yantsen]

That makes sense, thank you.

[pandruszkow]

I second the argument about just locking your user account.

If you're about to share your desktop, you'll need to go through all your open applications to close anything private anyway. Protecting only Rambox seems a bit unnecessary here. Your browser tabs (with Reddit opened) or email client is likely more private than that.

[fvulich]

I'm gonna close this ticket due to inactivity, feel free to open another ticket if the problem persists.