Building Safety Into Our Work

[Evan Huus]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Jono Bacon <jono at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Today on the #ubuntu-power-users channel LaserJock raised a really
> important point: if we have essentially two broad sets of users
> (end-users who rely on the out-of-the-box desktop experience, and power
> users who want to trick out their systems), how do we protect end-users
> from damaging their system by using tools designed for power users?
>
> I think this is an important topic of conversation, and I think the
> combined insight of the community could come up with some good ideas.
>
> Thoughts?

We already have a basic ncurses recovery menu that does fsck and such
(called friendly-recovery or something). It would be wonderful if that
could be extended to do PPA rollback (maybe using Ubuntu Tweak's
method, which I've already mentioned), gconf restore (again, see my
previous email about this feature in UT), and other common fixes.

The idea should be that even if the user insists on breaking his/her
system, they get this menu and Ubuntu offers to fix it for them, no
muss no fuss.

Evan