Re: Little change in PolicyKit messages from gnome-panel

[Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>]

Il giorno lun, 28/01/2008 alle 19.20 +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas ha
scritto:
> Hi Luca
> 
> On Jan 28, 2008, at 12:09 PM, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> 
> > I've just committed little changes to messages from PolicyKit policies
> > for Clock applet:
> >
> >   - Configuring the hardware clock requires privileges.
> >   - Privileges are required to configure the hardware clock.
> >
> > This to match similar messages from PolicyKit package.
> > ...

Sorry for the lag, I've missed this email :-|

> I know you're announcing this just as a courtesy, but ... I don't think 
> the new string is an improvement, unfortunately. It's not really your 
> fault, because you're following PolicyKit precedent, but really: 
> "Privileges are required"? That makes no sense except to computer 
> programmers. To non-programmer English speakers, privileges are things 
> that can be granted, accorded, withdrawn, stripped, enjoyed, abused, or 
> reserved, but never required.

Well, to be honest, the PolicyKit original strings are something like
"Authentication is required ...".

> More understandable ways of saying this would be:
> *   "To set the clock, you need to authenticate as an administrator."
> *   "To set the clock, you need to authenticate as a member of group
>      <whatever>."
> 
> Where should I report the bug for fixing these messages in PolicyKit? I 
> don't see a PolicyKit product or component in bugzilla.gnome.org.


PolicyKit bugs are tracked on http://bug.freedesktop.org

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