GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 720792
It is not clear what some toggles do
Last modified: 2016-03-31 13:22:00 UTC
This comes from bug #693840. There are three toggles in the Customize mode for a VM: Share clipboard Resize guest USB redirection It was easy for me to imagine what the first one does. But the other ones are not so clear. "Resize guest" - does that mean a resizable window? "USB redirection" - if I turn it off, will my mouse work inside the VM? I would find better labels helpful, or some sort of tooltip. Say: Let the VM's window be resizable [on/off] Let USB devices work in the VM [on/off] (The question about the mouse in the VM still stands.)
(In reply to comment #0) > This comes from bug #693840. > > There are three toggles in the Customize mode for a VM: > > Share clipboard > Resize guest > USB redirection > It was easy for me to imagine what the first one does. But the other ones are > not so clear. "Resize guest" - does that mean a resizable window? "USB > redirection" - if I turn it off, will my mouse work inside the VM? USB redirection part is covered by bug#710299.
*** Bug 710299 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
A few thoughts from me about this: I totally agree that the user experience here is not GNOMEish and to be improved. * "Login... Okay, I want to set the login data for the VM. Let's click this. Oh no I'm wrong. Ok, what is it here. There's a name and some weird things like >Virtualizer< and >URI< - what the hell is it? I want a way out, I can't configure anything here anyway." And the user probably won't find out that he can change the name. I think there's a bug for this somewhere. * Then there's the "Display" tab. From users perspective: he probably wants to configure things like resolution and this "resize guest" which isn't clear as mentioned in the initial report. What does the clipboard has to do with the display anyway? * Devices - as mentioned I would have no idea what redirect new usb devices does. Maybe we could discuss this problem with some people of the a11y team. In any case I think this also needs a bit reorganizing.
(In reply to comment #0) > This comes from bug #693840. > > There are three toggles in the Customize mode for a VM: > > Share clipboard > Resize guest > USB redirection > > It was easy for me to imagine what the first one does. But the other ones are > not so clear. "Resize guest" - does that mean a resizable window? I just removed this option and now its always enabled. > "USB > redirection" - if I turn it off, will my mouse work inside the VM? I'll look into adding some description next to it.
(In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #0) > > > "USB > > redirection" - if I turn it off, will my mouse work inside the VM? > > I'll look into adding some description next to it. Actually, I just realized I missed your point. What do you think we should say to user here? I'm already changing the title to "Automatically forward new USB devices to guest" as per the new mockup: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/boxes/wires/properties-modal.png Also we intend to make it impossible to redirect mouse and keyboard as per bug#698430. I'll do the renaming and then resolve this as fixed. Feel free to re-open with suggestions of how to do it better.
I went for a much simpler approach :) commit: 42ea12d9f27e746f1892332a6a3665c1be1de2c7 spice-display: Remove auto-usbredirection option Since this option is not the most obvious one and given that we refresh properties view when new devices are plugged-in and users have easy way to redirect devices individually, lets just remove this option. I told jimmac I'm going to do this and his reply was "\o/". :)