On Dec 7, 12:58pm, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E1ir=EDn?= Duffy wrote: } Subject: Re: User Experience improvements for Anaconda >On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 22:08 +0000, Chris Lumens wrote: >> > In the end, that's what I object to. It feels like an attempt to enforce >> > a policy that I don't agree with. Let it be default to set up a local user >> > account. But also let it be an option to bypass that and (or in addition) >> > set the root password. >> >> Part of having this discussion on the mailing list is to see what other >> people's opinions on this are. We're always open to different >> viewpoints and haven't really decided anything one way or the other on >> this. I'm not willing to make a decision on it until we see some more >> mockups, personally. > >Sorry it's been a week or so; I've been looking at the storage >re-initialization popup [1]. > >Anyway, here's a couple of different mockups (sorry if the blue is too >much, if the aesthetics are too scary just ignore them for the meat): > >https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/UX_Redesign/Sudo_By_Default > >I did two versions; > >- version #1 is where you can simply use 'root' as your username and >it'll set a root password instead of create a first user. One >potentially weird/awkward thing here is that I don't think it's so nice >to set a real person's name on a root account (is it even possible?) So >I think the right thing to do in the case of setting the username = root >is to blank out the 'Full Name' field and grey it out as well when >'root' is typed in the field. > >- version #2 is where you can 'opt-in' to setting a root password with a >bit of an explanation as to why you don't want to do it (to discourage >folks who might not be up for it from doing it.) The explanation on that >screen may be BS though, I made it up. :) > >In both versions, you get extra screens by 'opting-in' to them via >checkboxes (similar to how the partitioning screen works today.) > >What do you think? They would both let me do what I need, so I find both to be acceptable. An idea, just for grins, for version #1 is to put the username above the real name, and if the operator types in 'root' for the username, then it could pre-fill the real name with 'Charlie Root' (like BSD has had for ages ;-). Thanks, Steve _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
