Re: Confusion between Wi-Fi access point passwords and keyring passwords

I think the keyring is confusing to most people. Maybe the dialog should
have a link to more info about what the keyring is and why you need it?

Stormy

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:12 AM, Alex Railean <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
>
> > "[...] GNOME implements a very similar concept called 'Keyring'. The
> dialogs can
> > be quite confusing there to. A common use case I’ve seen is:
> > <snip>
>
>
> Maybe we can try a different approach - start the keyring the first
> time a user logs onto a fresh system (or immediately after the
> installation of the OS).
>
> At that point they will learn what a keyring is and come up with a
> password for it.
>
> This prevents scenario "3a" from occurring:
> > "3a. If this is the first time you are using your keyring you are asked
> to enter
> > a password to secure the keyring.
>
>
>
> Maybe it is a good idea to ask for a keyring password when creating a
> new user, so all these things happen in "one place".
>
> I won't be surprised if people will use the same password for the
> keyring as the one for their user account - if statistics can confirm
> that, maybe the keyring password shouldn't be asked at all?
>
>
>
>
> Alex
>
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