No screen shield in login screen in F20

Mon Jan 13 14:14:57 UTC 2014

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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).