Re: Wifi setting for how to store password is hard to find

Ben Cooksley <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.usability
Message-ID <CA+XidOF1iiYWOVPhALp-+eQ_8SU9z1tfBbe1toKGjdzYiP6DNw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 6:01 AM, Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]> wrote:
> El dissabte, 1 d’octubre de 2016, a les 0:36:36 CEST, Albert Astals Cid va
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>> Hi, there, i wanted to change how the wifi password is stored (from
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>> encrypted to not encrypted so it's available before anyone logs in), but
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>> even knowing what i wanted to change i needed to google for it and ended
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>> in some forum that told me to click on the icon next to the password field
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>> to get a popup menu, i.e.
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>> http://i.imgur.com/Szs5BH0.png
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>> I think that this is quite hard to find (even if it's a relatively
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>> "advanced" setting) and given we have enough space in that dialog it could
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>> fit nicely either as a radio group or as a combo button below the password
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>> field.
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>> what do you think?
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> Ping?

I may not be a usability person, but from perspective that UI is
non-obvious and unintuitive so it's probably worth breaking it out as
Albert suggested.

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>> Cheers,
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>> Albert
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Cheers,
Ben
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