On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 12:16 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: >> On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 01:52 -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote: >> > >> > ----- 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. >> >> ...where they have an actual point, which is to prevent accidental >> interaction with a 'live' interface 'behind' them. >> >> If the 'live' interface behind the shield is a password entry dialog >> which it's very unlikely you'll be able to do anything damaging to >> accidentally, and the OS is running on a device where accidental >> interaction with a UI is unlikely, it is unclear what benefit the shield >> is providing to anyone. > > Further note that on Android this behaviour is configurable, and I've > noticed that it's fairly common for people to configure it the way I do: > if you enable some form of actual device locking (a PIN, pattern lock, > whatever), you disable the 'shield' lock screen so you don't have to > double-unlock. I have my phone encrypted and set to always lock on idle > or power button press, so I have the 'drag across to unlock' shield-y > screen disabled as it serves no purpose for me, and just have the actual > unlock screen (PIN lock) do dual duty. > > What GNOME currently has looks a lot like mandatory double-unlocking, to > no obvious purpose: yes, you can clear the shield by hitting any > 'active' key, but most people do not appear to have got this message, > seeing as how these threads keep happening and we keep having to tell > people this fact directly (which is a method of information transmission > that doesn't really scale terribly well). https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722113 -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
