Public bug reported:
The attachment shows the dialog the user gets when he doesn't have a
java plugin installed (screenshot attached to this bug report). This
dialog is confusing from a user's perspective.
1. While it’s great that you help me install the plugin, I have no idea what
all these things are. All I wanted was “java”.
2. There is no “default” or “recommended” choice. I can see that one of them
is selected, but for all I know that’s because the choices showed up in this
order at random.
3. Even if I were inclined to think that the selected choice is selected for
a reason, there’s another choice that’s exactly the same.
4. “No description found in plugin database.” is not exactly helpful. In
fact, it could be just the thing to help me here.
5. If I wing it and install one of these, and then it turns out it doesn’t
work (perish the thought!), the little notification at the top of the web page
isn’t going to show up again (because a java plugin, working or not, would be
installed). So there’s no way I can come back to this screen.
6. If I am the kind of user who understands that the choices in this dialog
represent packages in the system, then I don’t know what they are called,
because the package names are not mentioned. So if I want to uninstall a plugin
that doesn’t work, I don’t know what to uninstall.
** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Java plugin installer is confusing
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/320989
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