Re: Proposal for inclusion in desktop: gnome-screensaver
- From: William Jon McCann <mccann jhu edu>
- To: JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
- Cc: release-team gnome org, desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Proposal for inclusion in desktop: gnome-screensaver
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:49:39 -0400
Hi JP,
JP Rosevear wrote:
I think its wrong to assume the face stuff will be used everywhere and
then to feature it prominently, essentially forcing it to be used or to
get a meaningless (large) abstract person all the time
The large, and fuzzy abstract person is not used in the latest (0.0.17)
version. I have been surprised at how many people dislike goatees.
So, the face images will only be used if available. This is consistent
with the GDM face browser.
It might also be nice to have a mechanism for vendors and sysadmins to
brand the unlock dialog.
* Center user's name instead of using a tabular layout for
username/password fields
* Don't show the stock lock icon
We use tabular in lots of other places.
Which is partly why I had it that way initially. I'll try to explain
why I changed my mind after considering Matthew's proposal.
We don't use use a tabular layout in GDM which is what we should be
consistent with. We don't use it in GDM in part because PAM drives the
UI and there won't necessarily be a password prompt. I have heard from
a few Sun developers who would like to make PAM drive the unlock dialog
in a similar way. For example, in a smart card enabled environment
there might not be a password prompt at all. That would be really
sweet. As an aside: I despise passwords - my screen should know I'm me.
If we don't have a password prompt the tabular layout doesn't make as
much sense.
The tabular layout is clean but perhaps too clinical or technical.
Whenever I see a tabular layout with colon delimiters I read it as if it
were spoken in a robot voice. I call this the robot voice heuristic.
Jon
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