Comment 2 for bug 990377
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| Dan Kortschak (dan-kortschak) wrote Re: [Bug 990377] Re: lock icon in User Accounts is at best confusing | #2 |
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On Sat, 2012-04-28 at 12:53 +0000, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
> What's the "normal use"? This button is standard as it's provided by
> GTK.
>
Normal use would be the generally accepted and widely used metaphor -
that a closed lock means 'locked', 'safe', 'secure' etc. This is how it
has been used for almost the past decade by browsers to indicate that an
encrypted connection is being used, how the Mac OS uses it in the same
context as in User Accounts, and even how real world objects use the
metaphor (attached - a picture of a baby safety lock showing a closed
lock indicating locked and an open lock indicating unlocked).
I'm not entirely surprised that GTK gives this little bit of insanity,
but Ubuntu devs should be able to improve on it.