183810 - Confusing messagebox for global/this profile only-install

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[steven]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021029 Phoenix/0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021029 Phoenix/0.4

I just installed a skin for Phoenix, it used an .xpi file. I don't know much
about them, so this could be a mistake in the .xpi file or not but here goes:

The installer popped up a question asking me to do a global install or for my
user profile only. It went something like this:
---------
(insert text explaining what the difference is)
To install to your profile only, press the [CANCEL] button. To install to the
global profile, press the [OK] button.

[ OK ] [ Cancel ]
---------

I hope this is not representative for the rest of the user-interaction dialogs
in Mozilla, but these kind of Microsoft-isms should be removed: instead of an
'OK' or 'Cancel' button, just have a 'Global Install' and 'This Profile Only'
button please! If the buttons had been descriptive, I would have immediately
understood what the messagebox was trying to tell: I know the difference between
a global install and an install for my profile only, so seeing these two choices
would have been enough for me. Instead, I had to read the message and follow the
confusing directions of what the OK and Cancel buttons each did.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install an .xpi skin
2. Get confusing dialog about global/this-profile-only install.


Actual Results:  
Gotten confused

Expected Results:  
Be clear and not follow Microsoft-ish confusing UI-practices.

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Not a Mozilla bug, this is being done by whatever .xpi you installed and should
be assigned to them. Unfortunately there's not much flexibility for them, just
confirm() as in any javascript which does not allow customization of the buttons.

There are also RFE's for making confirm() more flexible, and xpi scripts would
be able to inherit that flexibility.

Comment 2

[K'Trina Medina]

Verified invalid. Not a Mozilla issue.