[Bug 70786] Re: "Username" field contains nonsensical tooltip

[Sebastien Bacher]

Upstream comment:

"This is open for debate.  The purpose of the "F10 menu" is to provide a list of
features available to the user.  It is present because some gdmgreeter themes
do not have buttons to support features that may be turned on in the
configuration file.  In other words if "reboot" is turned on in GDM
configuration, but the theme has no "Reboot" button, then there is no way to
reboot without hitting F10
(or changing the theme to one that supports everything you might want to use).

So, to support such themes that might be missing useful buttons, this is
useful.
Any ideas of how to better communicate this functionality to the user would be
appreciated.  Also, if the best approach is to use a tooltip on the entry
field, should the wording be improved?  As you point out the words "questions"
and "menu" are probably poor word choices."


maybe you could comment on the upstream bug?

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"Username" field contains nonsensical tooltip
https://launchpad.net/bugs/70786