On Sat, 2012-04-28 at 12:53 +0000, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > What's the "normal use"? This button is standard as it's provided by > GTK. > Normal use would be the generally accepted and widely used metaphor - that a closed lock means 'locked', 'safe', 'secure' etc. This is how it has been used for almost the past decade by browsers to indicate that an encrypted connection is being used, how the Mac OS uses it in the same context as in User Accounts, and even how real world objects use the metaphor (attached - a picture of a baby safety lock showing a closed lock indicating locked and an open lock indicating unlocked).
I'm not entirely surprised that GTK gives this little bit of insanity, but Ubuntu devs should be able to improve on it. ** Attachment added: "real-world-example.jpg" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/990377/+attachment/3113910/+files/real-world-example.jpg -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/990377 Title: lock icon in User Accounts is at best confusing To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/990377/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
