Not obvious which users are logged in

Bug #994164 reported by Fred
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ayatana Design
New
Undecided
Unassigned
unity-greeter (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

When you switch user, Unity-greeter only hints which users are logged in by the way of a disambiguous arrow.

It is not obvious which users are logged in, and the little arrow is not intuitive.

Tags: ui usability
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

There are small triangles to the left of a logged in user that indicates if they are logged in

Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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Fred (eldmannen+launchpad) wrote :

You're right.
It actually does show which users are logged in by the way of a small triangle to the left.
I must have missed this.

This raises the question, perhaps the triangle is not obvious and it is not apparent what it means?
Perhaps it is not so intuitive.

Windows more clearly indicates that a user is logged in by displaying the text "Logged on".
http://www.novell.com/documentation/vista_client/vista_client_admin/graphics/credprov_5_a.png

tags: added: ui usability
description: updated
summary: - Does not indicate which users are logged in
+ Not obvious which users are logged in
Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → New
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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

Adding a design task for them to comment on.

Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Changed in unity-greeter:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
no longer affects: unity-greeter
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