If you have a padlock on your garage and you're looking at it in the locked position what does that mean...your garage is currently locked. And the opposite is true as well...if it's in the unlocked position (visually), it'd be unlocked!
Using the reverse in Ubuntu is counter-intuitive and goes against core principles of making Ubuntu fun and easy to use. Just a detail but it's idiosyncratic details like this that turn people off. This needs fixed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/990377 Title: lock icon in User Accounts is at best confusing Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: This is a UI issue. Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Release: 12.04 The lock/unlock button in User Accounts goes against the normal use of a lock to indicate the locked state, instead meaning the action of locking. This makes the icon confusing. A better approach would be to use the commonly used convention, and not have the lock in the button. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/990377/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
