Log File Viewer contains many rarely used logs

I have reassigned this to gnome-utils package

What logs would you list by default?

I'm using next logs (listed by importance):
~/.xsession-errors
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
/var/log/syslog
/var/log/user.log
/var/log/dpkg.log
/var/log/auth.log
/var/log/udev

Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention. However, a paper cut should be a small usability issue , in the default Ubuntu 9.10 install , that affects many people and is quick and easy to fix. So this bug can't be addressed as part of the project.

For further info about papercuts criteria , pls read > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut

Don't worry though, This bug has been marked as "invalid" ONLY in the papercuts project

I really don't understand how hiding system logs from the GUI will help users solve problems. I can see it causing additional problems, however, where users are asked to provide certain logs, can't find them in the GUI log viewer and need to dig in to the command line (or navigate to /var/log in Nautilus). Besides that, they still have insanely cryptic names like dmesg.

A less destructive approach would be to promote certain logs at the top of the list (maybe with human-friendly descriptions), leaving the others completely intact beneath.

Take a look to the screenshot. After one month of usage Ubuntu contains ~40 log entries. Even experienced user is confused by these. Is this not too much?

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

I am marking this as a duplicate because the solution to #841085 could potentially solve this one as well. they are 2 ends of the same problem.