[tor-bugs] #6724 [Vidalia]: Vidalia complains about bridge line starting with "bridge"

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#6724: Vidalia complains about bridge line starting with "bridge"
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 Reporter:  karsten      |          Owner:  chiiph         
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  new            
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:                 
Component:  Vidalia      |        Version:  Vidalia: 0.2.20
 Keywords:               |         Parent:                 
   Points:               |   Actualpoints:                 
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Comment(by karsten):

 Replying to [comment:2 asn]:
 > Replying to [ticket:6724 karsten]:
 > > Can we make Vidalia smarter by ignoring the "bridge" part in bridge
 lines?  We can probably get asn's promise to never call a pluggable
 transport "bridge". ;)
 >
 > I'm OK with this. I promise. Although maybe it would be better to spec
 this?
 >
 > However this would look quite stupid on the spec: maybe we should
 instead have Vidalia '''warn''' the user when the pluggable transport is
 called 'bridge', saying that this is a common mistake and Vidalia expects
 the name of the PT or the bridge addrport as the first input to the text
 box?

 I think the default should be that Vidalia expects the bridge line
 including the "bridge" part as its input.  With addresses and ports only I
 can see how users can be expected only to input those two things.  But
 with longer bridge lines, it's hard for (new) users to understand why
 they're supposed to leave out just the "bridge" part when they paste a
 line into Vidalia.

 > Or maybe we should have Vidalia document on the GUI what it expects to
 see in that text box?

 Nah, adding more documentation to Vidalia only means that we failed to
 design it intuitively.

 > I also like your other idea about switching to a text area!

 Cool. :)

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