Default Desktop Experience for 11.04 - User testing results

[Jan Claeys]

Jeremy Bicha schreef op di 19-04-2011 om 15:37 [-0400]:
> On 19 April 2011 15:13, Jan Claeys <lists at janc.be> wrote:
> > Matthew Paul Thomas schreef op di 19-04-2011 om 15:55 [+0100]:
> >> *   The object of the study was, obviously, not to measure crashes.
> >>     Crashes are usually quick to find and fix, so any user test of those
> >>     would be weeks out of date when published. I mentioned them only as
> >>     a reminder that to users, bugs are indistinguishable from design
> >>     flaws, and vice versa. (For example, one test participant pressed
> >>     Ctrl Alt F1 apparently by accident, and ended up at a console. This
> >>     wasn't a crash, but it had exactly the same effect as one.)
> >
> > Maybe we need to add a line of text above the login prompt somehow, that
> > tells the user what key to press to get back to their GUI?  (This might
> > be difficult to do correctly with multiple logins etc. though?)
> 
> We could do like Fedora and have X on virtual terminal 1. Why do we
> need 6 virtual terminals anyway? 

I'm sure that's a possibility, but you still need more than 1 VT anyway,
e.g. when more than one user is logged in.  And developers might need
the virtual text consoles, while maybe their machine is also used by
inexperienced people at other times.

Maybe it would be better to just disable all the Alt+Ctrl+Fx keys by
default, with an option to enable them in the keyboard configuration
(similar to what was done with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace)?


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Jan Claeys