On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 01:52:40AM -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > 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. That's the theory, but if new users aren't getting it intuitively -- and there is repeated, even if anecdotal, evidence that that's the case -- then blaming them doesn't help *us*. Something clearly needs to change in the design. > > 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. That will yield basically the same results -- people who were confused, or saw other people confused, or don't see the point, occasionally answered by statements that nothing will change. So that doesn't seem to be very constructive. I think that's really unfortunate -- this is clearly one of those points of user interface pain that it would be to our benefit to address. -- Matthew Miller -- Fedora Project -- <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
