[Reportbug-maint] Bug#614160: gtk-ui: Cancel button is confusing

[Sandro Tosi]

user reportbug at packages.debian.org
usertags 614160 ui-gtk
thanks

Hi Éric,

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 01:26, Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> wrote:
> Package: reportbug
> Version: 4.12.6
> Severity: normal
>
> Bonjour,
>
> I think the Cancel button in the main window is confusing.
> Such a button is commonly used to abort one step or
> close one window, not quit the app (to the best of my
> knowledge).  Why not use an unambiguous Quit button
> instead?

Ooooh finally the word I was looking at, 'quit' :) that would also
avoid the problem with 'c' being associated with both Continue and
Cancel.

> It would also be an opportunity to remove the
> confirmation prompt, which is often more of a nuisance
> than a safeguard.  I read an article (lost the link, of course)
> that explained that such dialogs were annoying and trained
> people to click fast, making the safeguard useless for the
> day you would have needed it.  It also doesn’t help when
> you realize only later that you should not have cancelled.
> That’s why gmail has no confirm prompt but a universal
> undo function, I read.

Mh, I see, sadly I think we introduced it just because will click on
cancel and suddenly see their reports vanish in the outer space, and
complain loudly.

>  What about auto-saving the
> message in progress in $TMP?

Nope, sorry that won't happen: else we'll see people complaining we're
leaving trash files around...

> Thanks for considering this.

You're welcome :)

> Regards
>
> (P.S. I don’t know how to set a component so that the
> report ends up in the right group in the list of bugs
> displayed by reportbug.)

Ah! that's because you didn't read the doc! kidding, well actually not
completely :) That's grouping is done using the usercategory/usertag
setup[1] on our bug tracking system, with a specific setup for
reportbug[2]. If you already now the usertag at bug reporting time,
you can look at `How to Usertags a Bug at Report Time` in README.Users
(an example of this operation is done with this email).

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi/HowToUsertagAndUsercategory
[2] http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi/Reportbug

Cheers,
-- 
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