Public bug reported:
PROBLEM DESCRIPTION
My sister (14 years old) used Xubuntu yesterday and did not understand the
plugin system.
Firefox uses the plugin icon (see attachment 1) to indicate a missing
plugin (in this case the Flash player). From there on she associated
this green icon with something like 'this software is broken and needs
fixing', because she doesn't even know what Flash is and assumed that it
would Just Work(tm).
Although installing the flash player was very easy for her to do (kudos
for that Ubuntu!), she now associates this icon with this specific kind
of situations.
So when she opened Pidgin Internet Messenger and saw the same icon in
the menu, she automatically assumed that Pidgin was also incomplete and
she asked me if I could install the right version. But.. Pidgin uses the
icon to indicate that it is possible to extend the program, not to
indicate that something 'essential' is missing.
POSSIBLE SOLUTION
A different icon for both (one for 'missing plugin to perform this action' and
one for 'it is possible to extend with plugins') would seem to solve this
interface problem.
Thanks in advance.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Plugin icon confuses new users
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197949
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