Re: [Tails-ux] [Tails-dev] [PATCH] Change syslinux menu entr…

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Author: Lunar
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To: Tails user experience & user interface design
Subject: Re: [Tails-ux] [Tails-dev] [PATCH] Change syslinux menu entries from "Live" to "Boot"
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> > Attached is the following:
> >
> > commit 6c331780610f290d495f9c77f16bf7263c4e0f2a
> > Author: Chris Lamb <lamby@???>
> > Date: Wed Sep 9 00:26:54 2015 +0100
> >
> >       Change syslinux menu entries from "Live" to "Boot"

> >
> >       Having to explain what "Live" means so early on in the Tails
> >       experience (or ever) doesn't seem like the best experience.

> >
> >       In addition, choices should typically be verbs - you can
> >       "boot" or "delete" things, but to say "live" here is either
> >       misleading or just a bit of a non-sequitur.

> >
> >       Signed-off-by: Chris Lamb <lamby@???>

> >
> >    config/binary_local-hooks/10-syslinux_customize | 1 +
> >    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

>
> This seems like something we'd like our UX team to ACK before taking
> action. For the record, I'm in favour of this change, and the patch
> looks good.


Isn't “boot” quite jargon? How about “Start Tails”?

For failsafe, we could have “Start Tails in failsafe mode” probably.
But I really wonder if that thing is any useful. I have *never* used it
since I'm using Tails, and it's been a while.

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Lunar