On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 13:10 +0100, Vratislav Podzimek wrote: > And to sum it up a bit -- I think this feature doesn't complicate things > for users who want to ignore it or who don't understand it. If you think > it does, please tell me about it and I'll do my best to fix it. On the > other hand, if somebody wants to care about security policies, they have > an easy and comfortable choice.
Unfortunately, I don't think this is quite right. As I understand it, it's fairly well established that if people see a UI element, they - or, at least, an appreciable amount of them - will want to interact with it, or at least understand it. *Some* people may follow this thought process: Path 1 ------ "Oh, hey, there's this thing here." "Hum. I don't understand it at all." "Well, I guess I'll just ignore it and carry on." which is what you're assuming, and would give an okay outcome. However, I think it's fairly well known that quite a lot of people will follow this one: Path 2 ------ "Oh, hey, there's this thing here." "Hum. I don't understand it at all." "Well, crap. I'm installing an OS. That's a pretty major operation. I think I'd better understand everything that's going on before I carry on." <clickety> "Huh. content...policy...profile? What is all this stuff about? What does it mean? What should I do?" This one goes one of about three ways. If we're really lucky: "Well, I guess I'd better go read the docs." <reads docs> "That was a clear, short and cogent explanation! I learned something, an now I can continue!" If we're less lucky: "I guess I'll go Google around and see if I find something useful. Jeez, why does this have to be so complicated?" If we're less lucky: "Man, screw this crap, if I have to go read an encyclopaedia just to get it installed, I'll go do something else". And finally, some people will probably follow this one: Path 3 ------ "Oh, hey, there's this thing here." "Hum. I don't understand it at all." "Well, what the hell, I'm a smart cookie, I'll just power through." <clickety> "Hum. Content...policy...profile? I don't really know what any of those things are. But reading is hard. I'll just make some sensible-looking guesses!" <clickety> I suspect you can figure out the possible outcomes of path 3. ;) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
