Launchpad needs a way of highlighting requested terminal input in comments.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Currently, it is very difficult for a triager to differentiate the commands they want a user to enter the terminal from their comments.
This has resulted in a variety of different methodologies, from quotes, to "$" signs, to new lines depending on the person triaging the report. The end result is that is is difficult for a new user to figure out what, exactly, we want them to do. It would be nice if there could be a psudo-wiki/
My suggestion, which is quite obviously up for discussion and modification, is this:
Have every new line starting with a unique character set be a terminal input. The line is indented and the background is changed to a lighter gray when viewed in lauchpad. It would have to be both simple, unique, and not likely to be confused as something other than a terminal input when viewed in an email. My suggestion would "|$" since "$" is the last character in the ubuntu terminal prompt, with the "|" character added to make it unique from the (probably rare) times when someone wants to start a line with the dollar sign and is actually talking about money. The downside is see to this is the increased server overhead from parsing this command out and translating it into relevant css/(x)html.
And example comment by a triager would then look like this:
>Hello and thanks for taking the time to submit this bug and help make Ubuntu better.
>Can you please attach the output of
>|$ uname -a
>in a comment to this bug report? Thanks in advance!
This is pretty distinctive in emails, without adding any more clutter than usual. I also believe that new bug submitters will be more comfortable with following up a bug report with "scary" terminal commands if they know exactly what they are doing and that is conveyed to them in a clear visual fashion. The [code] tags helped me immensely as a beginner in the forums, and I think they would have the same effect here.
Thanks as always for listening/feedback.
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- Launchpad needs a way of highlighting terminal commands in comments. + Launchpad needs a way of highlighting requested terminal input in + comments. |
Once again, the solution is to provide some kind of general markup system that's usable across LP.