Hi all, I was reading http://www.disambiguity.com/dialogue-boxes-making-simple-things-simple/#comment-18749 -- a blog comment made by Shawn Medero on May 29th, 2007. Shawn brings up an excellent issue there.
"[...] GNOME implements a very similar concept called 'Keyring'. The dialogs can be quite confusing there to. A common use case I’ve seen is: "1. You try to connect to a wifi access point. "2. You are prompted to enter a password for the [wifi] access point. "3. GNOME prompts you to store the password in a keyring. "3a. If this is the first time you are using your keyring you are asked to enter a password to secure the keyring. "I’ve watched folks retype the wifi access point password as their keyring password *many* times. The dialogs aren’t visually different enough for most folks because usually when you are connecting to a wifi access point you are in hurry. (At a conference, meeting, wherever… trying to check your damn email to download that file you need for the presentation in ten minutes)." I don't use Wi-Fi in Linux, so I've never run into the issue that Shawn reported. Does the issue still exist now, in 2009? What are some possible solutions? Cheers, -Jason _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
