[Bug 1197727] Re: "Replace your changes in ... configuration file" prompt is unattractive

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Am Freitag, den 19.07.2013, 15:32 +0000 schrieb Matthew Paul Thomas:

> b. What do you mean by "the header from the message"? Do you mean the
> "Replace your changes in..." string? Or is there a separate header that
> currently isn't being shown?
> 
> c. A question mark icon is the least specific icon that an alert could
> use. Can we be more specific by using the icon of the app that requested
> the task, in this case Software Updater?

The question mark informs the user that the dialog doesn't represent a
warning or even an error. That is a valuable information.

Why should we show the icon of the application? Since e.g.
update-manager is the parent window the user should be aware that this
is an update-manager related dialog.

> d. I think it's safer just to pull the filename out and put it on its
> own line, rather than including it in a sentence.
> 
> e. We could show the diff using labelled colors, without using "-" or
> "+" characters.
> 
> This sketch combines these suggestions (except that it's missing the
> resizability). What do you think?
> 
> ** Attachment added: "draft design for the alert"
>    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptdaemon/+bug/1197727/+attachment/3742770/+files/config-change.png

I don't understand how it works exactly. Do you want to have a toggle
button between keep and replace? What is the purpose of the continue
button? There isn't an ignore option at that point for the user.

The suggested diff viewer isn't very easy to implement. I will make a
small research if there is code that we could reuse. In the end it would
be nice to have a kind of editor which would allow a more detailed merge
of the configuration files instead of the all or nothing approach which
is currently taken.

Cheers,

Sebastian

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Title:
  "Replace your changes in ... configuration file" prompt is
  unattractive

Status in “aptdaemon” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  https://launchpadlibrarian.net/144145563/Screenshot%20from%202013-07-04%2010%3A26%3A58.png

  This prompt needs redesign. In particular:
  a. it's closable and maximizable and should be neither
  b. the title is "update-manager"
  c. the question-mark icon is uninformative
  d. the filename is in the primary text, with Ascii quotes, though it may be very long
  e. a programmer-style diff is likely incomprehensible to non-programmers
  f. the recommendation is to replace the file, but the default is "Keep".

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