On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 17:47 +0000, Jason Spiro wrote: > Hi all, > > I was reading > http://www.disambiguity.com/dialogue-boxes-making-simple-things-simple/#comment-18749 > -- a blog comment made by Shawn Medero on May 29th, 2007. Shawn brings up an > excellent issue there. > > "[...] GNOME implements a very similar concept called 'Keyring'. The dialogs > can > be quite confusing there to. A common use case I’ve seen is: > > "1. You try to connect to a wifi access point. > "2. You are prompted to enter a password for the [wifi] access point. > "3. GNOME prompts you to store the password in a keyring. > "3a. If this is the first time you are using your keyring you are asked to > enter > a password to secure the keyring. > > "I’ve watched folks retype the wifi access point password as their keyring > password *many* times. The dialogs aren’t visually different enough for most > folks because usually when you are connecting to a wifi access point you are > in > hurry. (At a conference, meeting, wherever… trying to check your damn email to > download that file you need for the presentation in ten minutes)." > > I don't use Wi-Fi in Linux, so I've never run into the issue that Shawn > reported. Does the issue still exist now, in 2009? What are some possible > solutions?
I think the issue still exists, last time I installed ubuntu for someone it seemed to be the case. A simple fix would be to add a 64x64 wireless icon to the network manager dialog, and to the keyring dialog we change the layout in such a way as to highlight the security issues of not using a strong password, and again a 64x64 icon which denotes it's the keyring. Some text in red similar to the "master password" warnings on MacOSX would probably be appropriate too. Alternatively, a dialog with a next button for the keyring password before the user is required to enter it would be another approach. The first dialog should include a link to some documentation, and a simple synopsis of the security issues. BR, K _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
