"Report a problem..." inappropriately presented as an "application"
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apport |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| apport (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
1. Trigger a crash in Apport itself.
What happens: An error alert appears, "The application Report a problem... has closed unexpectedly." <http://
What should happen: The system error alert appears.
There is no application called "Report a problem...". Apport may indeed be an application, but "Apport" isn't a name users should ever see either. And even if the application did have a sensible name (e.g. "Error Reporter"), identifying it by name in this particular case would be likely to make people roll their eyes and give up, when reporting the error would actually be useful and likely to work.
See also the other bugs tagged "classification", though Apport may need to be special-cased here.
[Originally reported by "nmoat" in <http://
| Changed in apport (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| tags: | added: whoopsie-daisy |
| Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote | #1 |
<ev> it has a desktop file so that it can be the MIME handler for .crash files
<ev> see /usr/share/
<ev> so I guess then the bug is that we should exclude .desktop files that are just MIME handlers