Re: Error message standards
- From: Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>
- To: Alan Shutko <ats acm org>
- Cc: gnome-gui-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Error message standards
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 15:55:17 -0700
Alan Shutko wrote:
I just got a message from the Gnome Run dialog, and it was jarring. I
think computing would be a happier place if all our error messages
were haiku.
Imagine how much less stress you would feel if instead of the gnome
segv dialog, you saw:
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
More inspiration from this old Salon article:
http://www.salon.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal2.html
Try BeOS then.
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