The problem with disabling the "Encrypt my home directory" option when "Login automatically" is selected is that people who want to encrypt their home directory have no way to figure out why it's greyed out.
(Now, if Gnome supported hitting a greyed-out item and getting a message about why it's greyed out, that would not be an issue -- but that's a major user interface bug that nobody in the UI community seems interested in fixing. It's been that way since the Mac stole the UI from the Xerox Star. If an item is disabled, you just have to GUESS at why, unlike in a command-line UI, where you can order the program to do something, and it has to tell you something when it can't. Ideally it tells you something useful to the user about why it can't, like what you'd have to do to make the command or option start functioning.) So, it would be better to merely UNCHECK "encrypt my home directory" when you check "Login automatically", and vice verse, leaving both of them selectable at all times. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/694283 Title: "Encrypt my home folder" should be disabled when "Log in automatically" is selected -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
