KFW 2.6 beta something experience
Sam Hartman
hartmans at MIT.EDU
Thu Feb 12 14:11:44 EST 2004
I downloaded and installed the latest KFW beta last night and have the
following comments about the the experience:
1) The install started out asking me about language selection. IT
only offered the option of English. It seems that asking the user
to select from one option is excessive.
2) e The install proceeded to ask me to agree to the MIT license. If
Windows users really would feel uncomfortable installing software
without having a click through license, keeping this screen is
useful. However the MIT license is a limited grant of copyright
and not a contract. As such the user is not required to agree to
it for it to be binding. I don't think we expect end users to
violate our license, and if they were to do so asking them to agree
probably won't help.
3) The dialogue box asking me which configuration source to use
allowed me to tab to the URL for the configuration file even when
I had selected to use ATHENA.MIT.EDU configuration. Similarly I
could tab to the directory for configuration while ATHENA.MIT.EDU
was selected. It seems that allowing users to input data in
fields that will not be used might be confusing. That depends on
Windows UI guidelines.
4) After KFW was installed I started leash and logged in. I selected
the Kerberos properties dialogue and attempted to change my default
realm. Doing so failed with an error about being unable to save
profile.
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