Adding PPAs pop-up confusing
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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Low
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Bug Description
I came across the "Read about installing" link in the paragraph "Adding this PPA to your system" on the page https:/
The text under "Adding this PPA to your system" currently states, "You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:joh/ppa to your system's Software Sources." Clicking on the link "(Read about installing)" causes a pop-up window to appear. Coupled with the information in the paragraph and the contents of the pop-up window, I misinterpreted the instructions. If would have been clearer to me if the paragraph had had been worded in such a way to link "ppa:joh/ppa" with the instructions.
I would like to suggest wording along these lines:
You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:joh/ppa to your system's Software Sources. For instructions on how to do this, click on the link for details and, in the example given, replace "ppa:user/ppa-name" with "ppa:joh/ppa".
Then you can get rid of the reference to "ppa:gwibber-
Changed in soyuz: | |
assignee: | nobody → Matthew Revell (matthew.revell) |
tags: | added: help |
Changed in launchpad: | |
assignee: | Matthew Revell (matthew.revell) → nobody |
There's quite a few bugs about the help text for adding PPAs.