----- Original Message ----- > The shield is something I have always considered to be pointless and > confusing to new users. I teach Linux at a local college and when we use > Fedora, I always have to explain the shield. For some reasons the shield is > confusing to them. You're not explaining it well then, because a lot of your students will already have seen similar screens on their mobile phones or tablets. > For me its just utterly pointless. I have yet to get an explanation as to > why its there. It just adds another step in logging in to my machine. I suggest you look at the discussions on fedora-devel list about this same topic. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop