Feature #15122

Rename Tails Greeter to be more plain

Added by sajolida 2017-12-27 20:48:47 . Updated 2020-04-16 21:09:42 .

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Category:
Installation
Target version:
Tails_4.5
Start date:
2017-12-27
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Feature Branch:
Type of work:
End-user documentation
Blueprint:

Starter:
Affected tool:
Welcome Screen
Deliverable for:

Description

During the expert review, “Tails Greeter” wasn’t an intuitive name. She would have preferred “Tails Welcome Screen” or something similar.

I understand that “Greeter” comes from the backend technology from GNOME.

We could check how other projects are calling such screens.

Files

0001-Rename-doc-first_steps-startup_options-into-welcome_.patch (1709 B) sajolida, 2020-03-25 04:09:47

Subtasks

Related issues

Related to Tails - Feature #15260: Clarify what is Tails Greeter in the documentation of each additional setting Resolved 2018-01-29
Related to Tails - Feature #14544: Spend software developer time on smallish UX improvements In Progress 2018-08-31
Blocks Tails - Bug #17136: Persistence preset: Greeter settings In Progress
Blocks Tails - Feature #17247: Core work 2020Q1 → 2020Q2: Technical writing Confirmed

History

#1 Updated by sajolida 2018-01-28 12:16:17

During the Additional Software UX sprint, a participant wondered what Tails Greeter was but quickly guessed it was the welcoming screen.

#2 Updated by sajolida 2018-01-29 13:22:38

  • Subject changed from Renaming Tails Greeter to be more plain to Rename Tails Greeter to be more plain

Two participants :)

#3 Updated by sajolida 2018-01-29 13:22:51

  • related to Feature #15260: Clarify what is Tails Greeter in the documentation of each additional setting added

#4 Updated by sajolida 2019-11-21 18:23:24

  • related to Feature #14544: Spend software developer time on smallish UX improvements added

#5 Updated by intrigeri 2020-02-23 11:04:52

Alan says that if the scope is limited to changing the window title in the Greeter’s GUI, then it’s really simple implementation-wise, once we know what the new string should be.

#6 Updated by sajolida 2020-03-05 17:16:06

  • Type of work changed from User interface design to End-user documentation

Hmm… Actually, it seems like the word “Greeter” is not used anywhere
in user-facing strings in the code. Then, this change only makes sense
in the documentation on the website.

We could call it “the Welcome Screen” and not change a ting in the code.
This would become a job for the Technical Writing team.

@cbrownstein: What do you think?

#7 Updated by sajolida 2020-03-11 23:40:55

  • related to Bug #17136: Persistence preset: Greeter settings added

#8 Updated by cbrownstein 2020-03-15 07:23:44

I think “Welcome Screen” is more familiar than “Greeter” and I think it makes sense to update the documentation.

#9 Updated by sajolida 2020-03-21 19:12:25

  • related to deleted (Bug #17136: Persistence preset: Greeter settings)

#10 Updated by sajolida 2020-03-21 19:12:36

  • blocks Bug #17136: Persistence preset: Greeter settings added

#11 Updated by sajolida 2020-03-24 22:30:40

  • blocks Feature #17247: Core work 2020Q1 → 2020Q2: Technical writing added

#12 Updated by sajolida 2020-03-25 04:12:58

@intrigeri: Here a patch for puppet-tails.git for once 4.5 is out.

@cbrownstein: I also worked on this as part of doc/17492-secure-boot (I’ll push it when I’m done with Feature #17492) because I was touching the same files already to adjust to Secure Boot. Sorry for the huge branch! But I made nice commits, hopefully. The commits for this ticket are 533c1b1bc7 and e257c1fbee.

  • I left “Greeter” in internal documents (blueprint) and very old news.
  • ‘Welcome Screen’ formatted as a feature, like Persistent Storage. I’ll document better these things in Bug #16221.

#13 Updated by sajolida 2020-03-25 04:14:03

@intrigeri: Ah, and shall we rename “Greeter” into “Welcome Screen” on Redmine as well? I leave it up to you.

#14 Updated by sajolida 2020-03-25 04:58:55

  • blocked by Feature #17492: Update documentation wrt. using GRUB + Secure Boot for USB boot on EFI 64-bit added

#15 Updated by intrigeri 2020-03-25 09:47:14

Hi,

> Here a patch for puppet-tails.git for once 4.5 is out.

LGTM. I’m tracking this in my org-mode. Is it fine if I do this in the few days that follow the release, as opposed to “in the next few minutes/hours”?

> Ah, and shall we rename “Greeter” into “Welcome Screen” on Redmine as well? I leave it up to you.

I see that you’ve renamed “Greeter” into “Welcome Screen” in the contributors doc too, so IMO we should do the same in Redmine/GitLab. I’m tracking this locally as well.

#16 Updated by sajolida 2020-03-25 18:53:49

> Is it fine if I do this in the few days that follow the release, as opposed to “in the next few minutes/hours”?

Yes!

> I see that you’ve renamed “Greeter” into “Welcome Screen” in the contributors doc too, so IMO we should do the same in Redmine/GitLab. I’m tracking this locally as well.

Great. I had a note about asking you to do this but apparently I lost it
half-way through :)

#17 Updated by cbrownstein 2020-04-04 07:24:34

  • Status changed from Needs Validation to In Progress
  • Assignee changed from cbrownstein to sajolida

Looks good!

#18 Updated by sajolida 2020-04-06 21:50:28

  • blocks deleted (Feature #17492: Update documentation wrt. using GRUB + Secure Boot for USB boot on EFI 64-bit)

#19 Updated by sajolida 2020-04-06 21:52:16

  • Status changed from In Progress to Resolved
  • Assignee deleted (sajolida)

#20 Updated by intrigeri 2020-04-15 06:02:14

  • Affected tool changed from Greeter to Welcome Screen

#21 Updated by intrigeri 2020-04-15 06:08:18

I’ve renamed the Redmine “Affected tool”:

  • Verified that we have no custom query (that I have access to) pointing to Affected tool = Greeter
  • Added “Welcome Screen” to the list of possible values
  • Listed all issues (even if they’re closed) that had Affected tool = Greeter
  • Set Affected tool = Welcome Screen on all these issues
  • Remove “Greeter” from the list of possible values
  • grep’ed our repo for links to Redmine queries that used the old value → none

I see some remaining references to “Greeter” in wiki/src/contribute/how/documentation/style_guide.mdwn and wiki/src/contribute/how/documentation/style_guide/*.mdwn. Could you please fix them? I guess it’s not worth the overhead of reopening this issue nor filing a new one.

#22 Updated by sajolida 2020-04-16 21:09:42

Wow! I thought it would be a matter of renaming a field in Redmine and not mangling all tickets :(

Thanks for double-checking!

  • In /contribute/how/documentation/style_guide.mdwn these are mentions to not use the word Greeter anymore:
With an article. Not *Tails Greeter* or *the Greeter*.
  • /contribute/how/documentation/style_guide/*.mdwn will go away with doc/8948-persistent-storage

So we’re all good.