Merge "Trust" and "Advanced Privacy" notifications at initial startup
- /e/ version: v1.10
- Device model(s): Beryllium & FP3
Summary
- Merge Trust and Advanced Privacy
- and:
Description
What is the current behavior?
On the initial startup (after the post installation setup) users get 2 notifications in the pull-down menu: one for "Trust" and one for "Advanced Privacy".
- Trust 1. When users click on it, they get informed that Trust is helping them. If they confirm the pop-up the Trust page vanishes and it becomes difficult to find the Trust subsection again on their system as Trust is well hidden in submenus.
- Trust 2. If the user instead enters the Trust page, there are lots of information provided. Most of the unfortunately not helpful to average users as more advanced knowledge is needed to understand. At this point, users even might find out that on their brand new or freshly installed device vendor patches are outdated. But nowhere an explanation that that means and how to fix this issue. Is this really helpful?
- Advanced Privacy. If the user clicks on the Advanced Privacy notification they enter the Advanced privacy section.
What is the improved behavior?
Ideally, upon initial startup
- the users should be confronted with questions that they can easily answer
- they users should be provided with information that is useful to them and that they may go back at any time moment (meaning: easy to find)
- and with information that they can understand.
As a consequence, I believe it could be more useful
- hide the 2 pop-up messages as they exist now
- to have just one page (either in the post installation dialogue or afterwards as a pop up) where the user gets informed in a few lines about advanced privacy settings (what they are, that they should only be touched by those who know what they do and where to find them) allowing the user to (A) enter them or just confirm reading (B) (and come back at a later moment)
- move the trust section to Advanced Privacy or fully integrate its different parts into Advanced Privacy
is informed where to find advanced settings and that they should touch them only if they know what they do.
What does it bring?
At least for long time /e/ was marketed as an operating system for average users - therefore /e/ should address better to this target group. As a result of the modifications proposed above: They user gets informed about potentials of /e/OS and know where to find them if needed.