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List:       ubuntu-devel
Subject:    Re: More diagnostics data from desktop
From:       Colin Law <clanlaw () gmail ! com>
Date:       2018-02-22 10:11:50
Message-ID: CAL=0gLtp_LqXfY0X8Y6XD3TmKuWFv0iswGo6sa4suo6LJqaqyg () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 14 February 2018 at 15:22, Will Cooke <will.cooke@canonical.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> We want to be able to focus our engineering efforts on the things that
> matter most to our users, and in order to do that we need to get some more
> data about sort of setups our users have and which software they are
> running on it.
>
> We would like to add a checkbox to the installer, exact wording TBD, but
> along the lines of "Send diagnostics information to help improve Ubuntu".
> This would be checked by default.
>

I think it has been suggested that a popup asking nicely whether it is ok
to send diagnositics, with buttons for yes/no might go down better than a
checkbox. I concur with that idea as pre-checked checkboxes do have a bad
reputation.

Colin

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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 February 2018 \
at 15:22, Will Cooke <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:will.cooke@canonical.com" \
target="_blank">will.cooke@canonical.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div \
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:no \
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rd-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Dear \
all,</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8p \
x;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight \
:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white- \
space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div \
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:no \
rmal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spa \
cing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;wo \
rd-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">We \
want to be able to focus our engineering efforts on the things that matter most to \
our users, and in order to do that we need to get some more data about sort of setups \
our users have and which software they are running on it.</div><div \
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:no \
rmal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spa \
cing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;wo \
rd-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div \
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:no \
rmal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spa \
cing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;wo \
rd-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">We \
would like to add a checkbox to the installer, exact wording TBD, but along the lines \
of "Send diagnostics information to help improve Ubuntu".   This would be checked by \
default.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think it has been suggested \
that a popup asking nicely whether it is ok to send diagnositics, with buttons for \
yes/no might go down better than a checkbox. I concur with that idea as pre-checked \
checkboxes do have a bad reputation.</div><div><br></div><div>Colin \
<br></div><br></div><br></div></div>


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