GDM Shield
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
zbyszek at in.waw.pl
Sat Mar 21 11:32:23 UTC 2015
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 08:10:48PM -0400, Adam Batkin wrote:
> On 03/17/2015 07:44 PM, Diogo Campos (gmail) wrote:
> >>It's really annoying to have to drag it out of the way or hit a
> >>specific key on the keyboard to dismiss it.
> >
> >Just type your password, dude.
> Just starting to type a password is not the answer. Sure, that may
> be a great shortcut for some people, but it's not obvious that's
> what I should do when I see the shield. And I use lots of computers
> with lots of operating systems every day, so having to do something
> different on only this one (drag away a useless shield - because
> let's face it, it *is* useless) forces me to think about something
> that should completely automatic.
The point is that you do not need to do anything different. On other
OSes you start typing the password, here you start typing the password...
Zbyszek
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