No screen shield in login screen in F20

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Mon Jan 13 06:52:40 UTC 2014



----- Original Message -----
> 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.

> For me its just utterly pointless. I have yet to get an explanation as to
> why its there. It just adds another step in logging in to my machine.

I suggest you look at the discussions on fedora-devel list about this
same topic.


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