Comment 3 for bug 531619
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| Scott Severance (scott.severance) wrote | #3 |
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The bigger usability issue here is the fact that the button makes irreversible changes to the currently chosen file--not a copy--and the irreversible nature is pretty much hidden from the user unless he/she happens to hover over the button long enough for the tooltip to appear.
Critical information should never appear only in a tooltip. Some of my data has been lost because of this.
Furthermore, this app is a GDM settings app, not an image editor. The expected behavior is for it to modify GDM's settings. It's reasonable for someone presented with this button to assume that GDM has some built-in facility to blur the background on the fly. It's not reasonable to guess that the image itself will be modified.
Therefore, my final conclusion is that the blur button should be removed entirely since it has nothing to do with GDM settings and has a large potential to cause harm. If users want to blur the background image, they should fire up their favorite image editor and blur away.