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

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 15:21 -0500, Hans Petter Jansson wrote:
> 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".
> 
maybe 'unhandled error' or something similar?
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>