On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 01:52 -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote:
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> The shield is something I have always considered to be pointless and
> confusing to new users. I teach Linux at a local college and when we use
> Fedora, I always have to explain the shield. For some reasons the shield is
> confusing to them.
You're not explaining it well then, because a lot of your students will
already have seen similar screens on their mobile phones or tablets.
...where they have an actual point, which is to prevent accidental
interaction with a 'live' interface 'behind' them.
If the 'live' interface behind the shield is a password entry dialog
which it's very unlikely you'll be able to do anything damaging to
accidentally, and the OS is running on a device where accidental
interaction with a UI is unlikely, it is unclear what benefit the shield
is providing to anyone.
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