If Nautilus crashes, the alert should say "The application Nautilus has closed unexpectedly." <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ErrorTracker#app-crash> If the internal error alert appears instead, please report that as a separate bug.
The internal error alert is for OS components that are not applications. These are the sort of component where, if its name was shown by default in the error alert, it would very likely be the only time a user had ever seen that name. Therefore, it would far more often be distracting than informative; hardly anyone confronted with the error would know what "postfix" meant, for example. If you do want to know the name of the program, it should take one click, "Show Details". <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ErrorTracker#details> I don't think one click is unnecessarily hard. ** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => New ** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to apport in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/938707 Title: Hard to see which program crashed for "Internal error" reports Status in “apport” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Version 1.92 (with the whoopsie merge) does not always state the name of the program any more, but sometimes says "Ubuntu 12.04 encountered an internal error". This is arguably dumbing down the UI and makes it unnecessarily hard to relate the crash report to an action you just did. For example, yesterday I got two of these popups because nautilus and the unity video lens crashed (which was related). If it would say the name of the program/package somewhere, it would be a lot easier to see that this might be the consequence of something you just did. Perhaps we could put the name of the program in a normal-sized text label below the title if we say "internal error"? Or just revert to always saying the name of the program? After all, "internal error" has zero information, and it does not sound any less scary than "postfix" or "nautilus" IMHO. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/938707/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
