On 01/22/2016 03:13 PM, Lukas Ocilka wrote: > On 22.1.2016 13:35, Ancor Gonzalez Sosa wrote: >> A assume that "next to root password" means one additional step after >> setting the root password. That would be the easiest option to >> implement, but I kind of dislike having an extra screen for such a small >> and "obscure" setting. > > No, it's definitely not about adding yet another empty dialog. Next to, > is "close to". > >> I believe it belongs to the summary screen because: >> - Many users will not know what it's about >> - The default value is good for most cases, a few users would change it > > Then I hope you will get the blessing from Ken later as what I remember, > he wanted to remove as much from the summary as possible. > >> If "next to root password" means in the same step that setting the root >> password, I have even more reasons to dislike it. :-) > > I believe you do, but as you did not write any of them here, it's hard > to compare what is worse :)
In addition to the already commented reasons (obscure and usually not changed): - The root password step is currently skipped in some cases (like if "use this password for root" in checked when creating user) - It's abusing a single step that now has a clear goal to do two different things > Anyway, I'm neither a designer nor a usability expert, although I've > already done quite some bad UI and learned from that a bit. If I knew > how to make a simply-looking and understandable UI while having all the > requested features, I would probably win a Nobel prize for design! Yeah, quite challenging. Cheers. -- Ancor González Sosa YaST Team at SUSE Linux GmbH -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
