GDM without user list requires that you click Log In.

[Joel Ebel]

Binary package hint: gdm

If the GDM user list (face browser) is disabled, then the user is only presented with a "Log In" button, rather than a username and password entry field. Disabling the user list is a requirement in an enterprise environment, and lacking the username and password entry field is a significant, and negative, change in the login experience. In face, I find the Karmic login experience document defines what the login screen should look like, and this does not match:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Karmic/LoginExperience#Login screen with username/password manual entry

The mockup on that page would be perfectly acceptable.

This requirement to click Log In combined with the non-disabled search box described in bug 463026 leads to a very bad user experience where the user may think they are typing in their username and password, but rather, they are searching a non-existent user list and their password gets displayed on screen in clear text.

This appears that it may be related to gnome bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591084

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Joel Ebel (jbebel)]

This bug is already filed upstream, and has already been linked to this bug. I just wanted a launchpad bug open to track the upstream bug.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591082 suggests the issue has been fixed with the current lucid candidate update, could somebody confirms it's working§?

[Joel Ebel (jbebel)]

The other related launchpad bug I filed is gone in Lucid now, however, this bug, requiring that you click "Log In" before typing your username is still present. With the other bug being fixed, this is no longer as critical, but it's still a poor experience and in conflict with the login experience doc I linked in the original report.