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. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
