On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Jeremy Orlow <jor...@google.com> wrote:
> I just got back from vacation and would like to take action on this. I
> read through the thread, but I don't see any sort of consensus on what to
> do. Here are the options as I see them:
>
> 1) Modal dialog box. Bad for debugging, will probably just be clicked
> through by users, and not very good for users who leave the browser open for
> long stretches of time. I'd say it's not a good solution.
>
I thought it was clear that this was the consensus best idea (see Darin's,
Glen's, my posts for example). I don't see how it's "bad for debugging"
(Viet-Trung's objection makes absolutely no sense to me), and we don't care
about the edge case of users who both use --no-sandbox and never restart
(this works well enough even for restarting once every several weeks, which
takes care of practically everyone). Clicking through is enough of an
annoyance to serve our purposes, and this is trivially simple to add
(simpler by far than all other options including an infobar).
2) Info bar. This seems like one of the more popular options at the moment.
>
This is a bad idea, we shouldn't do it. It's not as annoying as a modal
dialog, it has problems with clashing with other infobars on start.
Basically it's inferior to a modal dialog in every way.
3) Add some other persistent UI like the incognito spy guy, an annoying
> theme (that overrides whatever you have selected), or something else. This
> seems like a pretty good option to me, but there hasn't been too much
> discussion around it. What type of UI would be the best? Is this a good
> option?
>
No, we shouldn't do this. Way too much effort and code (think about making
this work on three OSes and with custom themes), we just want something
trivial.
4) Add some warning to the new tab page. Once again, no one's really
> thought about this seriously. Any thoughts?
>
Again, inferior to the other options. Doesn't work well for users who don't
start with the NTP (or ones who never see it -- I don't, I don't use ctrl-t
or the new tab button, I use middle-click and alt-enter).
If you're planning to implement something, please implement the dialog.
PK
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