Re: Users are confused about the configuration

[Libor Polčák]

Giorgio Maone napsal(a):
> Hello,
>
> On 13/12/21 14:58, Libor Polčák wrote:
> > What do you think about the following change effective with the new UI:
> >
> > The default GUI shows only ON/OFF toggles for:
> >
> > * wrappers (with the tweak for this site below or advanced config button)
> > * NBS
> > * Fingerprint detector (by default off)
> >
> > That way, the beginners should not be confused by all the functionality of the 
> > extension and should be able to turn the extension off for a site. Advanced 
> > users could still fine-tune the behaviour.
> Yes, it could work, but IMHO we should not call them "Wrappers" in the simple 
> UI, but rather something carrying the same weight as HTTP (or Network?) Shield.
>
> Maybe like
>
> JavaScript Shield      [   ON]
>                         [Tweak]
>
> Network Shields        [   ON]
>
> Fingerprinting detectr [OFF  ]

Hello Giorgio,

I agree.

> > The related question is if we need 3 default levels and many user provided 
> > levels. I think that a single pre defined level like level 2 could be better. 
> > We need to let the user define own levels (and set them as default). Do we know 
> > about any positive feedback for having L1 and L3?
> >
> > Giorgio, is it easy to modify the new UI so that the level numbers are not 
> > shown by default but that there is an ON/OFF wrapper slider instead?
>
> Do you mean like above, but then if you click the [Tweak] button you get the 
> full blown UI we've got know?

Yes.

We have two options what happens after the user click on the [Tweak] above:

(1) Show the 0.5.x-like GUI with advanced configuration button that will 
provide the full-length customization (current new ui branch).
(2) Go immediately to the full-length customization view.

I think that (1) is better but I am open to be persuaded to go for (2), 
especially if we get rid of level 1 and 3. We have an evaluation task scheduled 
for the NLNet so maybe we can think about a way how to evaluate the usefulness 
of these levels.

Best,

Libor