On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 16:52 -0400, Dan Winship wrote: > Matthias Clasen wrote: > > The main dialog > > Looks too much like the OS X one, particularly in the way that "Login > Options" is in a place where it doesn't make sense. :) Yeah. Thats only gimped in anyway, and won't work like that in a real treeview. > > The Email, Language and Location fields are here because they are > > frequently useful... > > I assume "Location" will tie in in some way with the improved > Location/Time Zone stuff? You tell us :-) I don't know how much thought Jon has put into this particular field... > > The password dialog > > An alternate UI possibility would be to autogenerate a few passwords of > different strength levels and put them directly in the actions list: > > Choose a password now > Choose a password at next login > Use this random password: zintelforb > Use this random password: fas42Br0x > Use this random password: y8Tx$mrA > Allow login without a password > > I don't think "Disable this account" belongs in the password dialog, > even though that's how it's implemented underneath. Unless it is implemented via /usr/bin/nologin...but you have a point. > > We've discussed ways to generate useful hints to go along with generated > > passwords, including somewhat crazy ideas like computergenerated poetry > > (cf gnoetry). > > Hm... how could that work though? Without knowing at least one "secret" > about the user besides their password, how can you autogenerate a hint > that will make sense to them (when they've forgotten their password), > but not make just as much sense to anyone else? It is a hint that helps you remember your password, not a challenge/response pair to use instead of your password. Anyway, I don't think generated hints are very high on the priority list - it was just an idea that came up during discussion. -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
