@Daniel: I'm not reporting a bug about the error displayed in the image I attached. I'm saying that the message bubble was too small to display the error, and even if I clicked the message bubble, it didn't expand to display the full error message. Moreover, the bubble appeared over some folders, and temporarily blocked my view of the files/folders in Nautilus. @Chris. I ran appport-collect for this bug just now. When I received your message about running apport-collect, I didn't have a clue about how it'd work and what the point of it was. So I didn't run it until now. I've been through the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs page innumerable times, and I assure you, it's extremely frustrating to read through all that text and not be able to figure out why y'all wrote all that, when all I wanted to do was to just search if the bug is already reported, and then just file a bug report. I could volunteer to improve the UX of that wiki page. But Perhaps what's more important, is to not require users to read through all of that, and maybe have a web page that would take them through a step-by-step process of what they want to achieve.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1926932 Title: Error message too short to understand what is wrong Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: This is on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla). I placed a text file on my desktop, and on clicking it, I was shown the error "Execution of /home/myUsername/Desktop/.goutputstream-WU... Command not found". Even on clicking the error message that popped up, it didn't expand to show more details. So basically, the bug I'm reporting is about error messages being too short/obscure to be useful for users to figure out what the problem actually is. Image attached. The black spot in the middle was added by me to obscure the username. (on a a side note, I was clicking a plain text document which had the checkbox for "allow executing file as a program" ticked). Clicking any other textfile didn't show this error. --- ProblemType: Bug ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.6 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME DisplayManager: gdm3 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10 InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-05-02 (12 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" - Release amd64 (20201022) Package: gnome-shell 3.38.1-1ubuntu1 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-50.56-generic 5.8.18 RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.38.2-1ubuntu1~20.10.1 Tags: groovy Uname: Linux 5.8.0-50-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo _MarkForUpload: True To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1926932/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
