Bug 130723 - The use of the round green gecko button on the SUSE desktop
Summary: The use of the round green gecko button on the SUSE desktop
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Usability (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Martin Schmidkunz
QA Contact: Siegfried Olschner
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Reported: 2005-10-26 11:46 UTC by Kenneth Aar
Modified: 2007-01-02 15:41 UTC (History)
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Description Kenneth Aar 2005-10-26 11:46:32 UTC 
There is this one thing with the default KDE setup in SUSE that must be very confusing for new users of SUSE.

The use of the round green gecko button. If you look at the default desktop on SUSE the same button is found in three different places on the desktop. But it has three different functions. The three different functions are: Suse watcher(YOU), KMenu(Kicker), SUSE Greeter.

This is not good usability in my opinion. The buttons should be different for each function.
Comment 1 Siegfried Olschner 2006-12-11 14:10:47 UTC 
Reorganization of usability-bug assignments.
We try to discharge the number of our bug entries in the
next weeks.
=> Reassigned to mschmidkunz
Comment 2 Martin Schmidkunz 2006-12-22 13:22:56 UTC 
Good point. The SUSE Greeter doesn't work anyway in the openSUSE 10.2 and the user is already greeted by the Novell/Suse Welcome screen after his first login. 
So, why don't we just skip the SUSE Greeter icon?
The SUSE Watcher icon was also replaced in openSUSE 10.2.
That leaves the gecko exclusively to the KMenu (Kicker)
Comment 3 Stephan Binner 2006-12-26 12:21:05 UTC 
> The SUSE Greeter doesn't work anyway in the openSUSE 10.2 and the user is already greeted by the Novell/Suse Welcome screen after his first login.

Uhm, the "Novell/Suse Welcome screen" *is* SUSEgreeter.

> So, why don't we just skip the SUSE Greeter icon?

Do you mean the SUSEgreeter icon on the desktop? It's not there anymore by default with openSUSE 10.2.
Comment 4 Martin Schmidkunz 2007-01-02 15:41:47 UTC 
As I saw for myself today, you were right, Stephan :-)

As there is only one gecko icon left, I consider this bug as fixed.