Confusing Navigation after Escape at Main Menu
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
|
Low
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: casper
After reaching the main menu on a LiveCD boot, press Esc. The following GUI appears:
Exiting...
You are leaving the graphical boot menu and
starting the text mode interface.
[OK] [Cancel]
(OK appears to be selected).
Pressing Enter at this moment leaves the user at a prompt with no apparent way to get back. Cancel would have been the more foolproof choice.
The mouse is not enabled on this menu, so the user must navigate by keyboard.
Typing O or o for OK, C or c for Cancel fails to make a selection. Tab and arrow keys do work, but the button can only be activated by Enter (and not by Space, as I expected it would).
My issues:
1. This GUI is designed for a pointer, but a pointer is not available to the user here
2. The GUI is not keyboard friendly
3. The user is dumped at a terse prompt if Enter is pressed
4. This whole area seems unintended, perhaps it is only for developers and testers. If so, something less obvious than Esc should activate it.
| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in gfxboot-theme-ubuntu: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | New → Triaged |
It's intentional that there's a way to escape to the "terse" boot: prompt - if gfxboot doesn't support your graphics card or monitor for some wacky reason then it's important to have an escape hatch.
Aside from that, I agree that the UI is clunky and should be improved. Some more work on keyboard shortcuts in particular is needed.