"The system detected a problem, do you want to report it?" dialog

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 2018-08-25 at 11:16 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 at 11:09, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Auto-reports are bad.
> 
> Why?

A daemon needs to run.
Users don't understand what they are doing, by just clicking ok, so it's
a security risk. It's easy to help the user to manually report a bug.

> Have you researched what the auto reports are used for?

Yes, they are good for absolutely nothing, but to offend privacy and to
avoid helping users to learn.

> > It's complicated to report a bug manually to the Ubuntu bug tracker.
> 
> That (even if true, which it is not in my experience) is irrelevant to
> this thread, which is about the auto reports

Feel free to explain how to do it! It is relevant, perhaps more users
would decide to remove whoopsie and apport.