On Wed, 2014-10-29 at 14:10 +0100, Tobias Mueller wrote:
I would advise against popups though. Especially those which are security relevant.
Normally I'd agree, but this would be a far cry from a "do you want to do something insecure? yes/no" dialog. I figure if we throw up a big symbolic keyboard (or a wireless network device icon or a USB hub icon or whatever else) next to a big symbolic flash drive and say "What did you plug in?", there's no way the user could get that question wrong.
Another approach could be a tool which you need to open in order to activate your plugged in device. In that tool you see the device and its types. Then you press a toggle button in order to activate (or deactivate) the device.
To be frank, that sounds terrible. When I plug in a keyboard or network adapter I want it to just work; I don't want to have to hunt for some app on my computer to let me activate it. How would users ever figure that out? Keyboards ought to remain plug-and-play. I think it's OK to use a popup in response to direct user input (plugging in a device); the problem is when they appear for no reason (like the popups from evolution-data-server). Happy Wednesday, Michael
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