Re: Wording of Error Dialogs
- From: Sebastian Heinlein <liste pimpzkru de>
- To: GNOME Desktop Development List <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Wording of Error Dialogs
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:54:52 +0200
Am Mi, den 23.06.2004 um 16:20 Uhr +0100 schrieb Alan Cox:
> The translator can always change it around if need be. The biggest
> problem is the number of variants of "Unable to open file". If there
> was a library helper for "open file, and whine if it fails" then
> not only could the translators get a rest, the code could be a lot
> smarter about error reporting, offer dialogs to select an alternate
> paths, spot NFS timeouts etc and generally do the job right *once*
The concern was about the correct understanding of passive tense by the
translators.
I would be glad if there would be a global function to call HIGified
common dialogs.
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