Re: Attempt to conclude

Hele Jano,
your attempt completely ignores the opinion of everyone else - e.g. the user 
should have an option to examine any data before submitting them. Also the 
proposal completely forgets about the fact that after a submittion a browser 
with some usage statistics should be opened.

<quote who="Jan Rojcek">
> We need to move further. 

While I agree that showing dialog at exit time is not good, I am afraid that 
the rest has not been agreed enough (I can be wrong, if so I appologize). I 
am afraid we cannot move anywhere, we can only start discussing everything 
once again.

> 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.

Probably possible.

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

I am afraid this is against the general feeling. 

> 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.

We need a place where to open the browser with submitted data. As that is 
the "gift" we trade with everyone for their participation and providing us 
their data.

> 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...)

Ok.

> 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.

Ok.
-jst

> 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

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