[Bug 325631] Re: When viewing a diff, button functions are deceptive
Agreed. By having only the one button available, the user will be taken back to the available choices. Exiting in a broken state will not be possible. ** Changed in: debconf (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- When viewing a diff, button functions are deceptive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/325631 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 325631] Re: When viewing a diff, button functions are deceptive
Also, since my bug was listed as a duplicate of this one, if you press cancel, it leaves wahtever package unconfigured and then causes broken packages but then colin replied to my bug report: "For what it's worth, it doesn't break the package manager at all - any package management frontend worth its salt can recover easily, or you can run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' from a terminal." Well, i am a fairly experienced linux user, and I did not know about that command, i had only known about apt-get -f install and that could not fix it, i had to run some other command to run pending configure scripts after poking around the ubuntu+1 irc channel for help (maybe that is it?) point is, if a user accidentally hits cancel, then thats going to cause broken packages, and a normal user is not going to know how to run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a" in a terminal to fix it, and its going to cause frustration ( as it did for me) I think that there should be no way of exiting out of debconf...and instead just forcing the user to make a decision, to prevent leaving packages unconfigured -- When viewing a diff, button functions are deceptive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/325631 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 325631] Re: When viewing a diff, button functions are deceptive
** Summary changed: - when choosing what to do with menu.lst while updating i did "show 3 way differ" and then "Cancel" + When viewing a diff, button functions are deceptive ** Description changed: + when choosing what to do with menu.lst while updating i did "show 3 way differ" and then "Cancel" after telling me that there was an error installation continued. All was fine just the menu.lst wasnt changed at all, so the old kernel was loaded by default. Changed it by hand to 2.6.27.11 and all was ok. - ProblemType: Package - Architecture: i386 - DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 - ErrorMessage: Unterprozess post-installation script gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück - NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia - Package: linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic 2.6.27-11.27 - ProcCmdLine: User Name=UUID=61803dc4-ad2f-4139-8532-cedac9835bcd ro quiet splash - ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.27-9.19-generic - SourcePackage: linux - Title: package linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic 2.6.27-11.27 failed to install/upgrade: Unterprozess post-installation script gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück + - + + The problem is that the Cancel and Forward options presented have + counter-intuitive functions. Cancel appears to be used for going back, + and Forward appears to be used for accepting the changes. The solution + should be to only have one button which takes the user back to the + previous dialog. -- When viewing a diff, button functions are deceptive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/325631 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
