Re: Error message standards



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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