The "Click to make changes" is misleading as the user would usually click on the wording rather than icon next to it! [this is similar to how it was confusing to the user when notifications displayed "Click icon to see more info"]. And this is also poorly worded as, all that the icon does is to unlock the settings.
More ideal would be to combine the icon-button and the non-reactive text into :
- a button with text "Unlock Settings" + the key icon [which is not displayed if user has default settings , button-icons set to false]
- With the button's tooltips saying "Administrator password required to unlock settings"
The "Click to make changes" is misleading as the user would usually click on the wording rather than icon next to it! [this is similar to how it was confusing to the user when notifications displayed "Click icon to see more info"]. And this is also poorly worded as, all that the icon does is to unlock the settings.
More ideal would be to combine the icon-button and the non-reactive text into :
- a button with text "Unlock Settings" + the key icon [which is not displayed if user has default settings , button-icons set to false]
- With the button's tooltips saying "Administrator password required to unlock settings"
@mpt: does that sound good?