On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 15:06 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote: > Hi JP, > > JP Rosevear wrote: > > I'm in favour with a couple of notes: > > > > 1. I liked the UI for unlocking circa 0.13 much better than the current > > I made some changes in response to Matthew Paul Thomas' analysis [1]. I > don't agree with all of his conclusions but overall it seemed to be > "less" which as we all know is "more" - so it won me over. Also worth > noting is that as a result of less complexity and fewer images the > startup time improved significantly. > > The changes were basically: > > * Show a "face image" if available
I think its wrong to assume the face stuff will be used everywhere and then to feature it prominently, essentially forcing it to be used or to get a meaningless (large) abstract person all the time > * Center user's name instead of using a tabular layout for > username/password fields > * Don't show the stock lock icon We use tabular in lots of other places. > * Don't display the "Unlock" button when show the switch users options This makes sense. > * Remove the progress bar This one I don't mind so much, it drove me nuts to see "About" 53 seconds. > We have some other bona fide user interface experts on this list so > maybe they can help out here. I pinged the UI guys at novell, hopefully they have something constructive. I don't think they did any user tests involving screen locking though. > > 2. The extra settings like DPMS need to be exposed like in xscreensaver > > or move somewhere appropriate > > I'm hoping that there will soon be one place for all power management UI > and policy. We need to make sure this is actually in place before we switch. -JP -- JP Rosevear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novell, Inc. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
