More end-user friendly dialogs on crash notifications
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apport (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Please consider a less dramatic end-user notification for "problem" notifications.
I'm transitioning long-time Microsoft Windows and some Apple Mac users to Ubuntu. Often, they are "change resistant" -- looking for any reason to claim that Ubuntu(Linux) is not "as good", etc..
Please consider changing the user-facing crash dialogs with wording such as:
<b>Correcting for system anomaly</b>
Submitting report to authors.
[ Continue ]
Then, silently gather report data and submit to maintainers/
More often then not, in my experience, these crashes are recoverable and deal with things like: cups-browsed, hpps, Xorg, etc. which are foreign concepts to end-users anyway.
Make the current developer/
Thank you for your consideration in making Ubuntu an easier transition for non-technical end-users and their sysadmins.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: apport-gtk 2.20.4-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportLog:
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CrashReports:
600:111:
640:0:
644:0:
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Thu May 11 07:33:43 2017
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-05-09 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: apport
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)