[tor-bugs] #3354 [Vidalia]: tor's auto bridge default and unintended Vidalia side effects

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#3354: tor's auto bridge default and unintended Vidalia side effects
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 Reporter:  erinn    |          Owner:  chiiph         
     Type:  defect   |         Status:  needs_review   
 Priority:  blocker  |      Milestone:  Vidalia: 0.2.13
Component:  Vidalia  |        Version:  Vidalia: 0.2.12
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Comment(by arma):

 Replying to [comment:13 erinn]:
 > Okay, this is better, but we're not quite there yet.
 >
 > 1. The wording is extremely confusing. When you check "My ISP blocks
 [...]" and try to save it without adding any bridges, a pop-up comes up
 saying: ''You haven't added any bridges, this will disable "My ISP blocks
 connections to the Tor network." Do you really want to do this? Yes / No''
 >
 > I'm not entirely sure what this means. Does the user really have an
 option here? If not, why provide them the option of saying "Yes"? Should
 they have the option to save this setting without configuring any bridges?
 If not, the pop-up should say something like (and I recommend not taking
 this verbatim): ''You haven't added any bridges so this setting will not
 be saved.'' Then return them to the UI, with the box unchecked.

 Right -- I don't see any reason to allow the user to click usebridges to 1
 while not setting any bridges. This was intended to be a hack that
 packagers can use to make Tor not touch the network until the rest of the
 package is ready to use it. There isn't really any need to expose the
 innards of that hack to the actual users by letting them enable the hack
 themselves.

 (Speaking of which, I was kind of partial to mikeperry's idea which is a
 popup question the first time you use Vidalia that asks if you want to
 configure any bridges before you start Tor. I think that's discussed in a
 different trac entry.)

 As another UI note, if the user clicks on "no I didn't really mean to
 click usebridges without setting bridges", and then saves, the user is
 left in an ambiguous state: did the other settings she changed before
 clicking save take effect or not?

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