1 *This is feedback about the current greeter as shipped in Tails 0.X. They do
2 not show the current state of design.*
7 User interface is confusing.
9 The combination of "green/red icons + the check mark + pushed button" is
12 How about a big push button labeled "Persistence", maybe with an icon?
14 The current behaviour for "More options?" is also problematic... How about
15 having a "More options" button at the bottom, near the "Login" button?
16 Ideally, this would require a "Back" button on the "Administration
17 password" scren, but even without it, I think the result will be easier
20 > How about using checkmark boxes or Yes/No radial dials, or not use
21 > them at all? Entering a password into a box means it's enabled, and
22 > leaving it empty implies you don't wish to use the feature. The text
23 > in my example here is a bit big though:
25 [[!img menu.png align="right" size="" alt=""]]
30 A few impressions after the publication of the screenshots. Great job
33 The buttons ON/OFF are sometime confusing, as it's hard to know if it
34 reflects the actual configuration, or the ability to modify this
35 configuration, i.e. if the option is *actually* activated or if
36 clicking on this button will toggle this option ON. I hope I'm clear
39 Please also keep in mind that some use small screens, and can get
40 blocked if the cannot see the validation button.
42 Last point, as I will have to use Tails-greeter *at each boot*,
43 I would like to be able to handle it easily with the keyboard, to save
46 That said, thanks a lot for the great job!
51 Indeed, this is a great polishing of the user interface, at least in
52 terms of appearance. I failed to download anything from the mockups
53 page though so be aware that this opinion is based on the screenshots
56 I do have some corrections and suggestions though, from the screenshot
57 it is apparent that it allows to choose "Portugues" (with a eacute) as
58 a region/locale, which is not! It is a river and neighborhood in Porto
59 Rico. "Portugues" (with a ecirc) is the correct word for Portuguese in Portuguese.
61 Now as for if "Should keyboard selectable independently from locale in
62 one click?", I would say yes as I use it in the current greeter. I do
63 this for two reason: First in case my tails session gets owned the
64 attacker will perhaps not know from which country I am though I am
65 aware in that situation I probably have far worse problems as far as
66 de-anonimization goes. And second, I am fluent in English, and
67 I prefer to see the menus and the documentation in English (as are
68 more complete). Having to scroll down to get the Portugal keyboard in
69 the current greeter is quite annoying though and I often wonder why
70 are the other languages more obscure keyboards (like without dead keys
71 and etc) before the more default options. Perhaps ordering
72 alphabetically by languages and after all the defaults keyboards then
73 again the lesser keyboards in this new greeter? (btw why is Portuguese
74 absent from the locales screenshots?)
76 A last, but most important imho suggestion: no matter how ergonomic
77 you can make the greeter it will always have some usability problems,
78 but there is a way to minimize this! There is already a todo ticket
79 for choosing language at installation time ( see:
80 [[!tails_ticket 5501]])
81 but then if someone got hold of your tails she/he could see from where
82 you are and what language you speak. Now, if a new feature in the
83 greeter was implemented - "Greeter Password" (pass-phrase would be
84 overkill in this case as usability is preferred) - language, locale,
85 but also camouflage, read only options for persistence, keyboards and
86 other options to come in the greeter, could be defined at installation
87 time and accessed at boot time with a few keystrokes from universal
88 keys in keyboards. Or perhaps you have two greeter configurations and
89 could setup two passwords.. If you think this feature could be useful
90 perhaps you could revamp the greeter with this in mind for a future
93 Okay that's its :) the overall opinion of the greeter from the
94 screenshots is that you made an amazing job :-) congratulations and
100 - The clean, fresh design is nice!
102 - Is "English" preselected? Hopefully the "English" language option is
103 preselected so the most common use case doesn't require an additional click.
105 Maybe a little checkmark to the left of the current language could indicate
106 this. This would let the user know they can skip past this step without
107 clicking anything more if we have already selected the most common option.
109 - The on/off rocker switch example is confusing. As others have mentioned,
110 'off' or 'on' could be interpreted as either the current state or is the action
111 to be taken when clicked. A possible alternative would be to use radio buttons
112 and add one more option "Default theme" that is the prechecked radio option. I
113 would rename the entire panel so just "Camoflage" or "Theme" instead of
114 specifically "Windows Camoflage". Doing both of these (using radios and
115 renaming the panel) would also allow for adding another theme like OS X by just
116 adding a new radio option.
118 - I might rename "Bridges" to "Tor Bridges" for clarity even on a user's first
121 Otherwise looks great.