same question as pizza_pablo. i used to switch sound on/off, as well as access texting or phone directly from the lock screen. now there is an extra step for each of these things ...
There used to be the ability to slide the sound on/off from the logon screen. That seems to be missing after KitKat. Does anyone know how to get that back so I don't have to login every time now to switch between silent and non-silent mode?