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On 01/13/2014 09:05 AM, Marcel Oliver wrote:
Matthew Miller writes:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 01:52:40AM -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> That's the theory, but if new users aren't getting it intuitively
> -- and there is repeated, even if anecdotal, evidence that that's
> the case -- then blaming them doesn't help *us*. Something
> clearly needs to change in the design.
Some more anecdotal evindence: my wife, a nontechnical user
accustomed to using Windows at work, got rather desperate about the
screen shield, rebooting the machine whenever it appeared and
accusing me of breaking her computer...
Sure, it was a quick thing to sort out, but I fail to get the point
of it.
As for the comparison with mobile phones: my Android device has a
function that superficially looks like it, but it acts as an
expanded notification list with direct navigation to the
application which triggered the notification, so it has a function
which is immediately logical and useful. For the Gnome equivalent,
the usefulness (if any) is not obvious from direct inspection.
Finally, the mouse movement necessary to remove the shield on the
login screen seems a bit unnatural for a mouse/trackpad motion, to
me it feels like a touchscreen type of thing.
Just to be pedantic, any keyboard activity will automatically move the
shield out of the way (it's been this way since F19, IIRC).
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