[Tails-ux] Greeter: 1st screen and quick setup

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Autore: spencerone
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What if we follow an agreed upon set of guidelines, e.g., GNOME HIG,
until the experience calls for a different [re]solution? Sticking to
standards is typically why things are so unusable.

Not only are we predicting the unpredictable, i.e., what other people
want/need, we are also teaching people how to learn, as that is the
nature of designing for others. So the greeter IA should be the most
suitable for that, no worries if it doesn't align to some standards.

SpencerOne



> I think that this discussion reveals a bigger issue: whether we want or
> not to follow the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines for the Greeter or
> whether we want to do it in own way using GTK technology without
> following their guidelines.


> Even if people coming
> to Tails are probably not used to GNOME, the whole Tails desktop is
> based on GNOME and following their guidelines will make our
> applications
> (Greeter included) more consistent with the rest and easier to
> manipulate on the long run.


> we should take
> quite a strong decision on this basic assumption, either one way or the
> other.