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Make file copying errors (in GUI) less technical & cryptic #1240

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bnvk opened this issue Sep 24, 2015 · 13 comments
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Make file copying errors (in GUI) less technical & cryptic #1240

bnvk opened this issue Sep 24, 2015 · 13 comments
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C: core P: minor Priority: minor. The lowest priority, below "default." r3.2-dom0-stable r3.2-fc23-stable r3.2-fc24-stable r3.2-fc25-stable r3.2-jessie-stable r3.2-stretch-stable T: enhancement Type: enhancement. A new feature that does not yet exist or improvement of existing functionality.
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@bnvk
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bnvk commented Sep 24, 2015

Currently if a user tries to copy a file from one VM to another using the GUI commands and the file already exists in the destination, they are presented with:

qfile-agent: Fata error: Fire copy: not overwriting existing file. Clean QubesIncoming dir, and retry copy; Last file: name-of-file (error type: File exists)

And this message shows a forboding red circle icon. This should be simplified to be less scary, technical, and cryptic. The only piece of this relevant & which makes sense to a GUI user is "File exists" thus I propose:

  • A more "warning" icon like a yellow or orange exclamation triangle
  • A message like "A file with the same name already exists where you trying to copy to"
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marmarek commented Oct 5, 2015

Shouldn't that message include also name of the place where the file already exists (QubesIncoming)? And a file name? ...
Why this should be displayed as a warning? The copy operation aborts if any file exists in the destination location, so in my understanding this is an error.

@marmarek marmarek added T: enhancement Type: enhancement. A new feature that does not yet exist or improvement of existing functionality. C: core P: minor Priority: minor. The lowest priority, below "default." labels Oct 8, 2015
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Improve error message when file exists
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    Fixes QubesOS/qubes-issues#1240
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The package qubes-utils_3.2.5+deb8u1 has been pushed to the r3.2 testing repository for the Debian jessie template.
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