Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: avahi-daemon
When I connect to my home router, I get a notification about avahi being
unable to use a ".local" domain. This bug is about fixing the message so
that it is clearer and shorter. I was instructed to report such a bug on
the ayatana mailing list, so perhaps a bit of discussion with them may
be useful if the problem is unclear.
The current message, at least, its Italian translation that I see every
day, is definitely too long, I had to see it a tenth of times to be able
to read the whole of it in the short delay of a notification. Moreover,
even if I think I can be considered an expert in using linux, I did not
understand at all the meaning of the message, and I had to google for it
just to get what the point is. The topic is a bit technical for the
average user. Even if knowing that avahi is "a dns service for the local
network" I still have no clue of what it is actually used for, so I do
not know what are the consequences of the notification (e.g. will my
printer work, and this thing is connected with apple perhaps, so will my
ipod work - if I had one :)).
A short message like "The avahi service is disabled, look here for more
info" would be good, but links can't be put in the notification. So I
personally can't propose a good solution. Perhaps the message should not
be shown at all, but rather it should be "embedded" in applications when
they try to use avahi and fail (e.g. "avahi is disabled because your
network has a .local domain, click here to know more", which is possible
inside of an application.
In any case, the current message is too long to be read; this is the
easily understandable part of this bug.
** Affects: avahi (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: ayatana usability
** Tags added: ayatana usability
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Too long and unhelpful notification for ".local" domains
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/395155
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