Public bug reported:
I originally raised this as an idea on the brainstorm, but was told it
should be reported as a bug by the brainstorm admin (the brainstorm is
here: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/21745/).
When you click on an executable text file, such as a script to which
you've just made a change which you want to test, a dialogue appears
asking if you want to open it, run it, run it in a terminal, or cancel.
I think this dialogue is severely flawed.
Why aren't the two run buttons next to each other? Why isn't cancel on
the far left where it usually is? What if I want to edit the file
instead of displaying it (I know the Display button /actually/ opens it
for editing, but it doesn't say that)? Why can't I tell it to stop
asking me every time I click on the file, if I always want to do the
same thing? And why is the dialogue so cluttered?
My solution is as follows:
- Move Cancel to the far left, because that's where we've come to expect it to
be
- Rename the Display button Display/Edit, because that's what it's for
- Get rid of the Run in Terminal option, but put a "Run in Terminal" tick box
under the "Run" button, because the dialogue is cluttered
- Add a "Remember my Choice" tick box
It occurs to me that this is probably trivial to fix - could it be a
paper-cut? I don't know if you could say it effects lots of users, but
it does happen on any executable file. I know that the last thing my
mum wants to see when she clicks an executable file is a scary technical
sounding dialogue - if we could simplify it (by reducing the number of
buttons) and give her a remember my choice option so that she doesn't
get bothered with it every time, she'd be a lot happier.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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The '"x" is an executable text file' dialogue is not user friendly
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/452642
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