On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:19 -0500, "David Carlson" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/12/2011 8:38 AM, Erinn Clark wrote: > > * Mike Perry <[email protected]> [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 > > [email protected] > > 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
..and sadly, the days of it being safe to accept software from strangers are long gone. GD -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
