Summary: | add login and cancel/clear buttons | ||
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Product: | kdm | Reporter: | Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | kdm bugs tracker <kdm-bugs-null> |
Status: | RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED | ||
Severity: | wishlist | ||
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Compiled Sources | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Maciej Pilichowski
2008-06-28 19:37:16 UTC
i suppose you are referring to the themed greeter. providing a login button is an option, but it is ultimately up to the theme to do it. the clear button was removed from the standard greeter years ago because it adds pointless clutter - escape works just as good. this is a view suggested by usability experts, iirc. Escape key -- it works, but the problem is that there is no other place where escape clears the edit box. It could not be "clear" button, the black #> widget used in editboxes in KDE could be used. Anyway both functions (commit, clear) should not be hidden. PS. Usability -- from my experience, I always hear from users questions "and now what? press enter?". They pressed it million times, but they are still unsure what to do if they don't have clear button for it. Escape key here is beyond their capabilities of memorizing all mechanisms under-the-hood of KDE. KDM is unmaintained and not used in KDE Plasma 5. SDDM is the login manager used in KDE Plasma 5. If you still have this same issue with SDDM, please file an issue on the SDDM bugtracker (after doing a search for existing issues first!): https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/ |