PolicyKit unlock button text appears dissociated from key icon
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One Hundred Papercuts |
Fix Released
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Low
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PolicyKit GNOME |
New
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Low
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policykit-1-gnome (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools
On users-admin, there is a key icon, which is supposed to authenticate the administrator. Beside it is text that says "Click to make changes." The text seems out of place. It is hard to determine that the text on the right of the key icon is what describes what it does.
What would be easier to understand would be having the icon and text on the authenticate button. However, GNOME is veering away from that convention. Because of this new trend, it could be better to simply have the "Click to make changes" text on the authenticate button.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Nov 2 21:18:11 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: gnome-system-tools 2.28.1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_PH.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: gnome-system-tools
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
Changed in policykit-1-gnome: | |
importance: | Undecided → Unknown |
status: | New → Unknown |
Changed in policykit-1-gnome (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in policykit-1-gnome: | |
importance: | Unknown → Low |
status: | Unknown → New |
So we should put the icon and text together in a button, and let GTK+ choose to display the icon or not, just like it's done since Karmic for all (standard) buttons. This is much like the old Unlock button, after all.
We'd need a comment from an usability engineer here, because it's not really clear to me whether it would really be clearer.