On 4/12/2011 8:38 AM, Erinn Clark wrote: > * Mike Perry <mikepe...@fscked.org> [2011:04:12 05:49 -0700]: >> Right now, the thing is called Minefield, at least on Linux, because >> that was most expedient. We probably need to use at least some of the >> more visible Firefox graphics in the long run, though. Remember, it >> should have a chance of looking like a regular web browser from a >> distance, at least. I think this means it must look as much like >> Firefox as possible, and shouldn't say Tor, but yet should still be >> obvious to the user that it is a different browser. > Minefield is just the name it gives itself when I build it from source, along > with its own set of Minefield-y icons. Some user experimentation indicates > that > a non-zero number of users don't even realize this is a browser at all, much > less what they should be using. > >> My current thought it that this means it calls itself Firefox and uses >> the Firefox graphics, but it has a green onion button on the toolbar, >> next to the url, signifying Tor use. This may still be too conspicuous >> for some users. In fact, a prefs.js issue is preventing the button >> from being displayed right now on some platforms, but I think we >> actually do want the button there.. Or do we? > Because of a misconfiguration in the OS X TBB last year, the toggle button on > the bottom didn't appear, and one user remarked that he thought this was > deliberate since Torbutton shouldn't be toggled while using TBB anyway. > > I'm more worried that users will have two Firefoxes open, and accidentally use > the wrong one because they can't distinguish between the two. It's hard to > anticipate which things would go wrong. > > As an aside, I met some nice people at a conference once and they suggested > that if we can't afford real usability testing, we should just go sit in > coffee > shops and interrupt random people and ask them to use our software and give > feedback, then buy them a cup of coffee. Maybe we should really do this. > > > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk Hi,
I, for one, usually really enjoy trying to break things, but not when I am doing something on a deadline. I think the coffee shop idea would flop miserably in the real world. David Carlson
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