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

On 8 Dec 2006, at 17:50, Jan Rojcek wrote:

> What do you think?

We need to move further. I think the whole flow should be something  
like this:

1. The request dialog shows up during the startup after 7 days of  
usage of the IDE.

2. The dialog shows up exactly once and the user has to decide  
whether to participate or not.

3. The user can later change his/her opinion in a dialog that would  
be accessible from the Help menu. This dialog is still TBD and it  
might contain user's usage statistics plus a link to the feedback  
homepage on netbeans.org. I'm not sure. The homepage can potentially  
contain tips, useful info, results extracted from user data, etc.

4. The "View Your Usage Data" button brings up a dialog which shows  
the usages data similar to what you have right now. I would prefer a  
simple list (instead of treetable, or tree, or table) with items like:

Enabled module ("Module Name")
Exception thrown ("Exception message")
Invoked action (New Project...)
...

Or it could just be a structured text output - whatever you prefer.
There should still be an option to view the raw data. The raw tab as  
you have it looks okay to me.
This dialog should have a Close button.
(Another option would be to expand the dialog after clicking the View  
button instead of popping up a new dialog, but I'm not sure how it  
would really work. Maybe we should try it.)

5. The "Learn more..." link should point to the home page of the  
feedback program.

The request dialog:

+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| NetBeans User Experience Feedback Program                    |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                              |
| <b>Help Improve the NetBeans IDE</b>                         |
|                                                              |
| Join the User Experience Feedback Program and help improve   |
| the usability and quality of NetBeans IDE. If you choose to  |
| participate, the NetBeans Community will collect anonymous   |
| information on how you use the IDE to identify trends and    |
| usage patterns.                                              |
|                                                              |
|                                                              |
| [ View Your Usage Data ]                                     |
| _Learn more and view collected data from all users_          |
|                                                              |
|                                                              |
| <b>Do you want to participate?</b>                           |
|                                                              |
| Click <b>Participate</b> if you're willing to participate    |
| in the User Experience Feedback Program.                     |
| Click <b>Do Not Participate</b> if you would not like to     |
| participate.                                                 |
|                                                              |
| You can change your preference at any time in Help | User    |
| Experience Feedback dialog.                                  |
|                                                              |
|                                                              |
|                     [[ Participate ]] [ Do Not Participate ] |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+

-Jano