On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:10:52AM +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: > Paul W. Frields wrote: >> >> The lock dialog defaults to the "plain" version for usability reasons >> -- that's something that's been decided upstream by GNOME and we >> probably won't be changing it any time soon. > > While I understand the point about usability (and appreciate you did the > work and submitted a design - IIRC this in not the first time you do that), > don't you think the root of the problem has to be addressed? > If we think a feature is that bad for usability reasons, shouldn't we just > drop it? Or make the themed dialog more usable or the simple dialog > prettier? > There *must* be a way to have something both usable and pleasant looking. > > To me, shipping two dialogs, one that is usable and another that is pretty > is like knowingly ship something broken and just papering over it a > temporary solution. > And I learned sometime you have to break the temporary solution to get the > problem solved properly. Just for the record, I don't disagree at all with wanting to have a prettier lock dialog, I just haven't felt particularly burdened by it. I'd say, lobby the desktop guys about this and work something out. :-) This isn't the first time (or the only subproject) ;-) where we start talking about these changes too late in the release cycle, but maybe we can get a permanent, mutually acceptable solution for Fedora 10. However, it ought to be just that, a *solution*, rather than simply advocating for switching a default without knowing why it hasn't been that way before. I'm cc'ing some of the desktop guys personally just because we want to get their attention -- hopefully they can explain what the usability factors are, and how we can have a design that meets those requirements for the future while looking prettier. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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