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CredibilityCredibilityPosted Mar 28, 2013 5:25 UTC (Thu) by grahame (subscriber, #5823)Parent article: GNOME, Fedora, and login-screen logos
I wouldn't be surprised if the idea to remove the vendor logo space comes from the same people that decided to require me to click and drag upwards with the mouse to be able to type my password into gnome-screensaver (Fedora 18).
I've no idea how that's supposed to improve my productivity. Simply typing stirs a little animation, indicating that I must pointlessly click & drag.
Máirín Duffy is right, UX in GNOME needs to be backed by research, not feelpinions.
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Credibility Posted Mar 28, 2013 5:27 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Err, you don't need to drag anything. Just pressing escape or enter works fine. Also, IIUC, with 3.8, you can just start typing your password. There are valid complaints about GNOME 3 but this doesn't appear to be one of them.
Credibility Posted Mar 28, 2013 6:22 UTC (Thu) by grahame (subscriber, #5823) [Link]
Great if they've fixed it, was definitely a problem. The 'press enter' option wasn't terribly obvious - thanks for pointing it out.
Credibility Posted Mar 28, 2013 20:30 UTC (Thu) by rriggs (subscriber, #11598) [Link]
So you are saying the new version fixes the behavior the poster describes, which those using Fedora 18 have to currently endure? That there was a version of Gnome Shell released with this behavior seems a legitimate complaint against Gnome.
Credibility Posted Mar 28, 2013 20:48 UTC (Thu) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]
Hitting enter at the lock screen on Fedora 18 gives me the password prompt.
Credibility Posted Mar 28, 2013 20:54 UTC (Thu) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link]
> with 3.8, you can just start typing your password.
Perhaps, but the most recent visual designs I've seen give no indication that you can do so, because they don't look like a thing that accepts typed input of a password.
Credibility Posted Mar 28, 2013 22:00 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Yeah. Some of the most useful features seem to lack discoverability which is indeed a problem. Hopefully they fix that in subsequent revisions.
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