Allan Day created an issue:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/-/issues/481
If you've never signed into gitlab.gnome.org before, the sign in page looks
like this:
It's pretty confusing, for a variety of reasons:
- The explanation for LDAP is away from the LDAP sign in fields, so you don't
see it
- The explanation for the 3rd party sign in options is away from the sign in
fields, so you don't see it
- There's no explanation of the ambiguous "standard" sign in option
- 3rd party sign in is what we want most new contributors to use, but a) it
doesn't say that and b) that information is particularly buried
- The phrasing of the text makes it feel like the 3rd party logins aren't as
good
- The structure of the page is wrong
- If 3rd party sign in is the primary sign in option, it should come first
- The eye naturally scans the prominent controls on the right first
- The description text on the left has low contrast which prompts the reader
to ignore it
Looking at the GitLab documentation, I don't see a way to fix a lot of these
issues. However, I think we could at least:
- [ ] Improve the text and formatting on the left, to grab attention and lead
with the most critical information first [1]
- [ ] Change the name of the LDAP account to be easier to understand ("GNOME
Account (LDAP)")
- [ ] Potentially change the "Standard" name to something more intelligable
Anything else we could do?
[1] The order of the information should probably go:
# Welcome to GNOME's GitLab instance
Sign in to create and comment on issues and make code contributions.
## How to sign in
- The main way to sign in is with an existing Google, Github or GitLab.com
account. This is the best way to start using GNOME's GitLab instance.
- Established contributors can use a GNOME accounts, if they have one (see
[how to request a GNOME
account](https://wiki.gnome.org/Infrastructure/NewAccounts)).
- Standard accounts are < explain what standard accounts are! >.
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