On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 21:44 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > See how the Windows Vista's UAC authentication thing is > perceived as disruptive by users (it locks the whole desktop with a dim > effect).
AFAIK, Its because the Windows Vista UAC was over-eager at prompting for every system change big and small. Not for just doing the lock. Which seems to have improved in Win7, far lesser number of prompts now. > In Ubuntu we had gksu, which also locked the whole desktop, and > the move to PolicyKit made authentication much smoother IMHO. > On the contrary, I find it annoying. If I'v selected to download an app from Software Center, it takes a couple of secs before the policykit prompt comes up. By that time i would have switched to another window, thinking its installing. But, Its just hung there with a policykit prompt. > There's no need to prevent user from switching to another application > when authenticating. If some application /is/ waiting for user input to proceed further, it *needs* to notify user asap, not just keep waiting for the user to come back. As a user, *I* should not have to make sure myself that things are going right or progressing. Rather the application needs to tell me its waiting for me. -- Cheers, Vish _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
