-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/13/2014 09:05 AM, Marcel Oliver wrote: > Matthew Miller writes: >> 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. > > Some more anecdotal evindence: my wife, a nontechnical user > accustomed to using Windows at work, got rather desperate about the > screen shield, rebooting the machine whenever it appeared and > accusing me of breaking her computer... > > Sure, it was a quick thing to sort out, but I fail to get the point > of it. > > As for the comparison with mobile phones: my Android device has a > function that superficially looks like it, but it acts as an > expanded notification list with direct navigation to the > application which triggered the notification, so it has a function > which is immediately logical and useful. For the Gnome equivalent, > the usefulness (if any) is not obvious from direct inspection. > > Finally, the mouse movement necessary to remove the shield on the > login screen seems a bit unnatural for a mouse/trackpad motion, to > me it feels like a touchscreen type of thing. > Just to be pedantic, any keyboard activity will automatically move the shield out of the way (it's been this way since F19, IIRC). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlLT9OEACgkQeiVVYja6o6OwNQCcDTTxPJyipN2zcjxFf1Mudecx PDUAn3J0z2syyu9RkNcT7T9F+cQAApoC =+ePR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
