Re: [Usability] Reviewing users-admin's new UI

[Anthony Ettinger <ettinger gmail com>]

The radio buttons that say "Regular User", "Admin", etc...are those
just a set of 3 recommended groups?
I was curious what shows up under the Groups tab too.


On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan club fr> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> So I've finally managed to merge the new GUI of users-admin (from the
> gnome-system-tools) to master, and it should be included in GNOME
> 2.29.3. That's basically a complete reorganization of the different
> settings one can tweak about user accounts, plus a few nice features
> that make up something (I think) really easier to use. The design comes
> from a proposal by Matthias Clasen and William Jon McCann for Fedora
> [1], adapted to what users-admin is able to do ATM (more features will
> hopefully come later).
>
> As we all know people who wrote the code are not the best placed to
> judge how good is the UI that results, I'd be very happy to get any
> comments from you. Keep in mind that it's still a work in progress, but
> I guess it's time to fix many problems that I can't spot, being an
> occidental user, mostly working with a mouse pointer, used to Unix users
> jargon, not using a magnifier, and lacking time and skills to check
> everything. I'd especially appreciate suggestions for better strings,
> since I'm not a native English speaker.
>
> (I know not everybody in GNOME uses the gnome-system-tools, thus I don't
> expect people from these distributions to bother about them.)
>
> Thanks in advance !
>
> 1: http://people.redhat.com/mclasen/user-account3.pdf.bz2
>
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