Re: [evolution-patches] patch for #61978 (addressbook)

[Hans Petter Jansson <hpj ximian com>]

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 09:41 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 10:19 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > 
> > FWIW that doesn't mean anything more to me.
> > 
> > At least "impossible" implies a coding problem vs user or system
> > error.
> > 
> the thing is that the error is not impossible, since it's happening to
> someone. So, maybe something better than "Unknown error" would be much
> better, but it should not include the word "Impossible", I think.
> 
> Or maybe the fix is much more difficult, and needs real code changes to
> not have the code fall into that case?
> 
> Anyway, this patch served its purpose of showing up to the people in
> Pamplona how the patch sending/review process works :)

I think if we want to change this string, we need to think through what
the error case is first, and describe that correctly. "Unknown error"
simply doesn't help, and although it's less alarming, provides less
information than "Impossible error".

-- 
Hans Petter