Re: [Tails-dev] disabling default Pidgin profiles? [Was: Tra…

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 5:03 PM, intrigeri <intrigeri@???> wrote:
> Hi,

Hi,

> Runa A. Sandvik wrote (04 Feb 2013 15:12:51 GMT) :
>> - A few users seemed confused when Pidgin automatically connected to
>> IRC.
>
> Interesting. Any idea if these confused users had any previous
> experience with IM (like: knowing that the first thing you generally
> have to do is setup an account), and maybe with IRC in particular?

They did not have any previous experience with IRC, not sure about IM
in general (my bet is they are used to the in-browser-chat
functionality you see on Gmail and Facebook).

>> I wonder if it would be better to have that disabled by default,
>> and instead take users through the process of setting up their own
>> accounts.
>
> I'm personally a bit torn on that one.
>
> On the one hand, I think it should be kept as straightforward as
> possible to boot Tails, start Pidgin, and go get some support on IRC,
> so I'm wary of any additional required steps.
>
> On the other hand, I understand there's some potential for confusion,
> and I find it tempting to disable the auto-generated profiles by
> default and document how to enable them or create one's own account.

I think this would be good, but I can also see how having it enabled
by default would be useful.

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Runa A. Sandvik