Re: Attempt to conclude : [nbui] Show data or not?

On 6 Dec 2006, at 18:24, Jaroslav Tulach wrote:

> Overall it makes me think we shall reject the one time early check  
> (installer,
> first start) and continue to improve the version that does allow  
> the user to
> check data before the transmit.

Yes, the fact is that showing the data can help users agree to send  
the data. The question is how much it helps.

The usability problem of showing the request dialog during IDE exit  
is that it's unexpected. The user wants to quite the IDE (and maybe  
go for lunch or so ;-) and we're asking them to spend some more time  
thinking about sending or not sending the data.

Maybe the IDE startup would be more suitable in this case. But then  
we need to have the data collected to show something, which would  
mean storing the data on disk and ask at the subsequent startup. When  
we store the data on disk, we can maybe ask after one week of usage  
which would also eliminate data from those who only try the IDE one  
or a few times.

The request dialog that pops up during the IDE startup might look  
like this:

+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| NetBeans Usage Feedback                                      |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                              |
| Help to improve the NetBeans IDE by sharing the information  |
| about how you use the IDE with NetBeans community. The usage |
| data contain information about actions, project types and    |
| plugins you use.                                             |
|                                                              |
| [ View Your Usage Data ]                                     |
| _Learn more and view collected data from all users_          |
|                                                              |
|                                                              |
| Do you want to send the usage data?                          |
|                                                              |
| [x] Use the same answer without asking next time             |
|                                                              |
|                                [ Send Data ] [ Do Not Send ] |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+

The _Learn more and view collected data from all users_ is a  
hyperlink that points to the web (as suggested by Hrebejk). The View  
button would resize the dialog and show the data (TBD).

What do you think?

Thanks,
Jano