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Autor: sajolida
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A: Tails user experience & user interface design
Assumpte: Re: [Tails-ux] Phrasing for the graphical interface startup failure (#14521)
sajolida:
> intrigeri:
>> intrigeri:
>> I've shown this to a fellow Tails developer and he wondered what he
>> was supposed to do and whether typing <Enter> report a bug (it won't).
>> Besides, "Report a bug" is misleading as the URL points to our
>> documentation about troubleshooting startup problems.
>>
>> So I think some rephrasing is in order.
>>
>> Let me first clarify what are the two scenarios I'm trying to help
>> make possible/easier here:
>>
>> 1. The user visits https://deb.li/TailsNoX, follows our
>>    troubleshooting doc about "Tails does not start entirely" and finds
>>    a workaround for their hardware in there. But this workaround is
>>    inconvenient (e.g. it requires typing additional boot options every
>>    time they start Tails) so the user has an incentive to let us know
>>    about the problem, and then they would follow our error reporting
>>    documentation, that's linked prominently from the Desktop, and
>>    instructs them to use WhisperBack.

>>
>>    In this case, displaying the hardware details on this screen is
>>    useless: this info will be included by default in the bug report
>>    the user will send us later. But displaying the URL is
>>    probably useful.

>>
>> 2. The user visits https://deb.li/TailsNoX, follows our
>>    troubleshooting doc and gets lost or does not find a workaround for
>>    their hardware. Best case, they'll go far enough on the right path
>>    to find the instructions that tell them to report a bug over email
>>    to our Help Desk team, and to include error messages appear when
>>    they start Tails, e.g. by taking a picture.

>>
>>    In this case, the URL is useful: it directly points the user to the
>>    troubleshooting doc, in case they were not following our online
>>    installation assistant or got lost in there. And the hardware
>>    details are useful: we are giving the user exactly the info they
>>    should report us, and nothing more.

>>
>> So how about this:
>>
>> Please visit https://deb.li/TailsNoX for troubleshooting, then report this error:
>> GDM fails to start with Cirrus Logic GD 5446 [1013:00b8]
>>
>> I think it expresses better the path we suggest the user takes, and
>> adding "please" helps clarify that this screen is not a widget that
>> can trigger an action.
>>
>> Thoughts, improvements?
>
> Regarding the error message:
>
> - deb.li is case sensitive and that worries me a bit. There's also no
> relationship between 'NoX' and 'GDM'. What about instead
> https://deb.li/tailsgdm/?
>
> Or even https://tails.boum.org/gdm which is only 3 characters more but
> might be less intimidating or weird to our users by having a familiar
> domain name. And we'll have direct control over the redirection.
>
> - I like "Please" :)
>
> - ', then ' → ' and ' (3 characters less)
>
> Regarding where to point to: unfortunately, I think there's currently no
> good place to point to. That's also the problem raised in #14788 and
> others. But maybe this feature will be a good trigger for me to finally
> work on that :)
>
> Can we change the redirection afterwards with deb.li?
>
> In terms of strategy, in the current version we're asking people to
> report the error, whether or not the troubleshooting section was useful
> for them or the issue already known. I'm afraid of overloading our help
> with more reports that they won't be able to solve.
>
> If our goal is to lower the reports on help desk, we could only point to
> that web page and rely on it to be a better filter and ask the right
> people to report the right bugs (right now it's probably a catastrophe).
>
> The message could then be:
>
> Error starting GDM with Cirrus Logic GD 5446 [1013:00b8]. Please visit
> https://deb.li/tailsgdm for troubleshooting.


Sorry, I mean:

Error starting GDM with Cirrus Logic GD 5446 [1013:00b8]. Please visit
https://tails.boum.org/gdm for troubleshooting.

Which is 118 characters (20 less).