hi, I've not finished reading everything everyone wrote about tails-greeter in the last weeks, but here is the outcome of a first quick test.
I'm happy to see tails-greeter allows choosing a language and keyboard layout eventually; still, the UI is not in a shape I'd like to ship to actual users yet, see bellow for details. The admin password feature seems on the right track, see the dedicated thread for a solution to the remaining blocking issue. Now come the bug reports. 1. Alt + Shift I don't understand what "Use Alt + Shift to switch layouts" means. It seems pressing this shortcut is not needed, which is great. 2. Pre-selected locale xx_XX locale, when available, should be the default when the xx language is selected. E.g. when choosing say the "Deutsch" language, I think de_DE should be the pre-selected locale, instead of the first that comes in lexical order (de_AT). 3. Widgets and usability As I already said, the widget used to select a language is a pain to use. If it's that hard to use a more appropriate widget, I think we should at the very least allow the user to move the focused line by typing the first letter of the desired language name. Also, I still think it would be much better to just copy the widget used by gdm-simple-greeter to allow choosing the language and locale at the same time: asking Tails users to choose among strings like "en_MX" is not an option, that's why "Español (México)" is much better. 4. Limited layout choice Seems like it's not possible to choose, say, the "Deutsch" language and a keyboard layout that is not a German-based one. It's great to have the most probable keyboard layouts easy to reach, but it's not that great to be prevented to use, say, a qwerty keyboard layout. The keyboard layout UI in the gdm-simple-greeter panel is great I think: the same layouts that are currently available in tails-greeter for a given language would be part of the default list, and the "Other" button would allow choosing another one as well as variants. 5. Phrasing and UI I'd replace "Enter here a password that will be asked to grant administrator rights." with "Optionally enter an administration password." Don't put ":" at the end of text labels ("Language:"). Adding some margin between widgets, and between window border and widgets, would be a great idea I think. Why is the current layout displayed inside square brackets (like this: [XX])? Feels weird. Bye, -- intrigeri <intrig...@boum.org> | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc | Did you exchange a walk on part in the war | for a lead role in the cage? _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list tails-dev@boum.org https://boum.org/mailman/listinfo/tails-dev