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

Sajolida,

On 01/24/2015 10:23, sajolida wrote:
> spencerone@???:
>> Sajolida,
>>
>>> I'm ready to discuss a better "Guided" button but I'm not sure that
>>> we
>>> want to diverge from the way the GNOME widget look like that early :)
>>> At
>>> least for the selection list and hyperlink.
>>
>> Yes, I understand :) The thing about guides is that they work but
>> only
>> until they don't. I still think that we should follow an agreed upon
>> set of guidelines, e.g., GNOME HIG, until the experience calls for a
>> different [re]solution.
>>
>> My reasoning is: 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
>> standards, because that's not typically what defines the best
>> experience, as it is is only a snapshot of what has worked in the
>> past,
>> not what's needed in the present.
>
> I could agree with that to some extend, but I'm also against
> reinventing
> the wheel and in favor of reusing well-proven solutions :)
>

I respect your reservations with innovation, except conflicting logic
isn't a well-proven solution.

>
>>> Yes, the list of keyboard is much longer
>>
>> Why? How common is it for a person to type in a different language
>> than
>> is read? If very, then can we combine the languages [read and key]
>> into
>> a single space, though still independently functional?
>
> The same language could be spoken in several countries with different
> keyboards. For example the French keyboard in France is AZERTY but the
> French keyboard in Switzerland is QWERTY (go figure!). Other people
> prefer having an interface in English (without translation) but use
> their usual keyboard mapping.
>
> But we were considered preselecting the most common value of the
> keyboard based on the language when changed.

Awesome, so can we combine the two in some visually effective way, since
we are considering this sweet preselection approach?

Wordlife,
SpencerOne