Usability Improvement

[Aaron Honeycutt]

I know there has been work done on KWallet for it's move to KF5 but I've
not even seen a prompt about it in quite awhile on my machine so I can't
say it's current state. It's an upstream project like 98% of the stuff in
Kubuntu. The bug tracker and KDE phab might the best places to look at it's
current state.

Bugs: bugs.kde.org
Phab: https://phabricator.kde.org/

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 11:54 PM Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:

> I'm sure this isn't the most correct place to post this, but perhaps it
> could make it's way to the correct person.
>
> I've put Kubuntu on 10s of thousands of machines over the years and a
> very common problem that I run into is with the KDE wallet system.  I
> meant to write in with this suggestion years ago, but it got out of
> site, out of mind.  However I just did a little tech support for someone
> that was very very angry about the situation, so I thought I should
> finally say something (better late than never).
>
> So the problem is that when you first login it tells you set a password
> for the wallet, but it doesn't really give you any of the implications
> of setting that password so it then becomes a giant annoyance to those
> that don't care about protecting their passwords and just want their
> system to leave them alone.
>
> So my thoughts are that without changing the wallet system itself
> perhaps a different initial setup could be created that briefly tells
> you what the wallet does and then asks you to pick from 3 levels of
> security for the wallet such as:
>
> Low security: Just store my passwords in the wallet without a password
> Medium security: Set a password for your web passwords but keep the
> local passwords without a password so your wifi "just works"
> High security: Set a password for all passwords in the wallet
>
> Only the second and third option would prompt for a password.
> I suppose you could have a 4th option to not use the wallet at all, but
> I wouldn't recommend that to anyone.
>
> I believe that simple change would keep people not only more educated
> about what the wallet is, but will make them happier with KDE in the
> long run... (and keep people from yelling at me in the future <grin>)
>
> Thanks for reading my rant,
> Brian Cluff
>
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Aaron Honeycutt
- Ubuntu Fl Loco South Lead
- Kubuntu Council Member
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