UI confusion as a new user

[canton7 (Antony Male)]

@majeric

Have an installer. Don’t make me figure out where to put it. Every OS has it’s ideal locations for applicatiosn. Particularly given that this one is a service. The installer should optionally set up the service.

Take a look at the community contributions - SyncTrayzor and Syncthing-GTK, for example, both provide installers.

@majeric

Provide a default configuration in install so that the user has time to figure out the necessary elements of the interface. Setting up the user’s first device, the device ID should auto-populate from the “action command” that’s listed above.

We already set up a default folder. I’m not sure what you mean by “Setting up the user’s first device, the device ID should auto-populate from the “action command” that’s listed above”. Do you mean the first time that the user adds another device? I’m not sure how we can auto-populate anything in that case, since we need the user to tell us the Device ID of the other device.

@majeric

3. Calling something an “ID” is unclear. Particularly it feels like it’s an official thing rather than an informal thing like a name. (Particularly when you ask for both a name and an ID). As a user I was

Fair. The text underneath both the “Folder ID” and “Device ID” does go into some detail on what exactly that field represents. Do you have any suggestions on how to improve it?

@majeric

Let me decide where the folders are going to go initially. This is a reasonable first configuration requirement.

You can create new folders straight away. Is this not what you were expecting?

@majeric

You have to mess with configuration files.

What did you have to edit the configuration file for? As a user, you should never have to edit it manually.