Mir error messages from exceptions are not user-friendly
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mir |
Triaged
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
mir (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Mir error messages from exceptions are not user-friendly.
Test case:
mir_demo_
Expected: Some human-readable explanation about a failure to open VT 123
Observed:
ERROR: /build/
Dynamic exception type: N5boost16except
std::exception:
2, "No such file or directory"
What shouldn't be visible: File paths, mangled symbol names, double-colons or the words "throw" or "exception". These are all words useful to programmers, but our target audience for the general activity of starting a shell is users, not programmers.
What should be visible: Information that's meaningful without any knowledge of the Mir source code; Some mention of "Failed to open VT", and maybe "/dev/tty123", maybe "No such file or directory".
description: | updated |
Syncing task from Mir.