"Too smart for us?" dialog might turn people away from Ubuntu

Bug #736959 reported by Brian Murray
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Evan
Natty
Fix Released
Low
Evan

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

I saw the "Too smart for us?" dialog when installing on 2011-03-17 and I'm not certain if it is trying to be funny but as this is the first appearance of humor it might be off putting - particularly since it occurs at such an important question.

Tags: natty qa
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :
C de-Avillez (hggdh2)
tags: added: natty qa
Kees Cook (kees)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Natty):
milestone: none → ubuntu-11.04-beta-1
Kees Cook (kees)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Natty):
importance: Undecided → Low
assignee: nobody → Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations)
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

I don't think it's sarcasm or trying to be funny, for what it's worth; manual partitioning is genuinely for the case where the user is smarter than the automatic partitioning software. The phrasing might be found slightly flippant for some people, though. Assigning to Evan for a review.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Natty):
assignee: Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) → Evan Dandrea (ev)
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Mauricio Pretto (pretto) wrote :

wouldn't a question like:

Feeling confident today or feeling lucky sounds better?
I agree that too smart might not sounds as smooth as possible

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

In the next version, this will read "Something else: You can create or resize partitions yourself, or choose multiple partitions for Ubuntu".

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Natty):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.5.28

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ubiquity (2.5.28) natty; urgency=low

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Update the descriptions for the automatic partitioning options to match
    changes to the specification (LP: #736959).
  * Mount /proc and friends for apt-clone.
  * Use the noninteractive debconf frontend when calling apt-clone.
  * apt-clone is now a separate package.
  * Add a partitioning heading to help clarify what operating systems
    may be acted upon by the installer.
  * Remove ' (loader)' from the os-prober operating system descriptions on
    the initial partitioning page.
  * Properly substitute in the non-Ubuntu system when generating descriptions
    for dual boot partitioning.
  * Remove alpha warning for reuse option in preparation for the 11.04 Beta.
  * Update translations from Launchpad.
  * Automatic update of included source packages: console-setup
    1.57ubuntu17, grub-installer 1.60ubuntu2, localechooser 2.34ubuntu3,
    partman-auto 93ubuntu13, partman-auto-loop 0ubuntu19.

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Preprocess our variant of keyboard-configuration.postinst, so that it
    includes the keyboard_present function.
  * Start oem-config-debconf on stopping rc RUNLEVEL=[2345], rather than on
    (filesystem and stopped udevtrigger); this guarantees that we will never
    end up without a controlling terminal because tty1 has already started.
  * Don't run the oem-config job in recovery mode (thanks, Shih-Yuan Lee;
    LP: #734695).
  * Run plugininstall in debconf frontend (LP: #740183).
 -- Evan Dandrea <email address hidden> Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:22:00 +0000

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Natty):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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