Re: [Usability] Confusion between Wi-Fi access point passwords and keyring passwords

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

I think the keyring is confusing to most people. Maybe the dialog should have a link to more info about what the keyring is and why you need it? 

Stormy

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:12 AM, Alex Railean <ralienpp gmail com> wrote:

Hi everyone,

> "[...] GNOME implements a very similar concept called 'Keyring'. The dialogs can
> be quite confusing there to. A common use case I’ve seen is:

> <snip>


Maybe we can try a different approach - start the keyring the first
time a user logs onto a fresh system (or immediately after the
installation of the OS).

At that point they will learn what a keyring is and come up with a
password for it.

This prevents scenario "3a" from occurring:

> "3a. If this is the first time you are using your keyring you are asked to enter
> a password to secure the keyring.

Maybe it is a good idea to ask for a keyring password when creating a
new user, so all these things happen in "one place".

I won't be surprised if people will use the same password for the
keyring as the one for their user account - if statistics can confirm
that, maybe the keyring password shouldn't be asked at all?




Alex

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