Re: [evolution-patches] Terminate password prompts with a full stop
- From: Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>
- To: Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>
- Cc: evolution-patches gnome org
- Subject: Re: [evolution-patches] Terminate password prompts with a full stop
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:43:54 -0500
On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 13:05 -0500, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 04:24 +1000, Ted Percival wrote:
> > I think the password prompts would look better if they were terminated
> > with a full stop - because they are full sentences.
> >
> > Please CC me on replies, or on a bug report, if this needs discussion.
>
> I agree with this in principle but I'd like to see a few additional
> changes while we're at it:
>
> 1) Convert these password prompts to markup strings and make the
> user and host names bold, so as to distinguish a hostname "dot"
> from a full stop.
>
> (e.g. "Please enter the IMAP password for mbarnes redhat com ")
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Bold
>
> 2) Use consistent wording. I prefer for previous example over:
>
> "Please enter the IMAP password for mbarnes on host redhat.com."
> ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^
FWIW, it was changed from "password for mbarnes redhat com" to "password
for mbarnes on host redhat.com" because some mail servers (where vhosts
are involved??) will require a user's login name to be of the form
user vhost and so the resultant concatenation would be:
Please enter the IMAP password for mbarnes redhat com@realhost.com
which people complained was confusing (and there were hundreds+ of
complaints before we finally gave in and changed it to the current
string).
Just keep that in mind if you decide to change the current prompt.
Jeff
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