nassh: show a random tip on every startup
This should help users cheaply discover features they didn't even know
they wanted. It'll take up a single line in the output at the top.
Change-Id: I263b7cdeaf650cc69d8d00ccfb9d2ef8561a1b4d
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/607553
Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Brandon Gilmore <varz@google.com>
diff --git a/nassh/_locales/en/messages.json b/nassh/_locales/en/messages.json
index 3fab78b..dbadf73 100644
--- a/nassh/_locales/en/messages.json
+++ b/nassh/_locales/en/messages.json
@@ -339,6 +339,50 @@
"description": "Label for the current terminal emulator profile name. Profiles are used to customize things like color and fonts.",
"message": "Current profile"
},
+ "TIP_1": {
+ "description": "Helpful tip shown to user advertising features",
+ "message": "You can hold Ctrl (Cmd on macOS) while clicking on links to open them!"
+ },
+ "TIP_2": {
+ "description": "Helpful tip shown to user advertising features",
+ "message": "Display notifications in the browser using hterm-notify: https://goo.gl/ZNxGdF"
+ },
+ "TIP_3": {
+ "description": "Helpful tip shown to user advertising features",
+ "message": "Connect from the omnibox by typing 'ssh <profile name>': https://goo.gl/V7o8ki"
+ },
+ "TIP_4": {
+ "description": "Helpful tip shown to user advertising features",
+ "message": "Chrome OS can mount filesystems via SFTP and browse via the Files app. Use 'SFTP Mount' instead of 'Connect'."
+ },
+ "TIP_5": {
+ "description": "Helpful tip shown to user advertising features",
+ "message": "Connect using ssh:// links in web pages, or save a bookmark: https://goo.gl/zS8EZD"
+ },
+ "TIP_6": {
+ "description": "Helpful tip shown to user advertising features",
+ "message": "Color your output/prompt using basic 16 colors & 256 colors & full 24-bit colors: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x329.html"
+ },
+ "TIP_7": {
+ "description": "Helpful tip shown to user advertising features",
+ "message": "Copy to your clipboard from emacs/vim/etc... using OSC-52: https://goo.gl/XSnyLo"
+ },
+ "TIP_8": {
+ "description": "Helpful tip shown to user advertising features",
+ "message": "Chat with fellow hterm/Secure Shell users via chromium-hterm@chromium.org: https://goo.gl/RYHiK"
+ },
+ "TIP_9": {
+ "description": "Helpful tip shown to user advertising features",
+ "message": "Found a bug? Request a new feature? Let us know: https://goo.gl/vb94JY"
+ },
+ "TIP_10": {
+ "description": "Helpful tip shown to user advertising features",
+ "message": "When running in a window, Ctrl-Shift-N can open another session."
+ },
+ "TIP_11": {
+ "description": "Helpful tip shown to user advertising features",
+ "message": "You can rebind keys/shortcuts: https://goo.gl/LWRndr"
+ },
"UNEXPECTED_ERROR": {
"description": "Generic message displayed when we encounter an unexpected error.",
"message": "An unexpected error occurred, please check the JavaScript console for more details."
@@ -381,6 +425,20 @@
}
}
},
+ "WELCOME_TIP_OF_DAY": {
+ "description": "Random useful tip displayed to the user at startup",
+ "message": "Random Pro Tip #$NUM$: $TIP$",
+ "placeholders": {
+ "num": {
+ "content": "$1",
+ "example": "22"
+ },
+ "tip": {
+ "content": "$2",
+ "example": "Did you know you can resize the window?"
+ }
+ }
+ },
"WELCOME_VERSION": {
"description": "Message displayed to the user when the application is first launched",
"message": "Welcome to $NAME$ version $VERSION$.",
diff --git a/nassh/js/nassh_command_instance.js b/nassh/js/nassh_command_instance.js
index 1370808..f51e06a 100644
--- a/nassh/js/nassh_command_instance.js
+++ b/nassh/js/nassh_command_instance.js
@@ -160,6 +160,13 @@
this.prefs_.set('welcome/show-count', notesShowCount + 1);
}
+ // Display a random tip every time they launch to advertise features.
+ var num = lib.f.randomInt(1, 11);
+ this.io.println('');
+ this.io.println(nassh.msg('WELCOME_TIP_OF_DAY',
+ [num, nassh.msg(`TIP_${num}`)]));
+ this.io.println('');
+
if (this.manifest_.name.match(/\(tot\)/)) {
// If we're a tot version, show how old the hterm deps are.
var htermAge = Math.round(
