Re: [evolution-patches] Seeking review for bug #47751 & #47752

[William Jon McCann <mccannwj pha jhu edu>]

On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 02:15, Maxx Cao wrote:
> 3. The confirmation message will be like this:
>     "Are you sure you want to cancel this druid?"
>                                                                  ~~~~~ ( 
> or "wizard" is better wording for end users?)

Hi,

I'm just curious, is it ever really necessary to expose this kind of
terminology to the user?  I'm going to guess most people in the world
have no idea what this kind of druid or wizard is - nor do they care
to.  We already force users to learn way too much lingo IMO.

How about: 
"Are you sure you want to close this configuration window?"
or "Do you want to cancel this configuration process?"

The first still relies on the user identifying a thing (window) but at
least one that is already entrenched and kinda/sorta has a real world
counterpart.  The second attempts to refer to what the user has been
doing.  In general I think this latter approach works better.

It may also be good to add secondary text that explains that information
that has been entered will be lost.

What do you think?

Jon