Re: Nautilus UI change

["Eugene O'Connor" <Eugene Oconnor Sun COM>]

Hi Dave,

Here are my suggestions for the patch.

1. As Christian says, replace

"Can not open %s"

with

"Cannot open %s"

(I would say use "cannot" rather than "can't".)

2. I think the following rewrite of the dialog message makes things a
little clearer and hopefully easier to translate:

The file extension \"%s\" indicates that this file is of type \"%s\". 
The contents of the file indicate that the file is of type \"%s\". If
you open this file, the file might present a security risk to your
system.

Do not open the file unless you created the file yourself, or received
the file from a trusted source. To open the file, rename the file to the
correct extension for \"%s\", then open the file normally.
Alternatively, use the Open With menu to choose a specific application
for the file. 

Hope this helps,
Eugene


Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 08:51, Christian Rose wrote:
> > tis 2004-02-24 klockan 02.06 skrev Dave Camp:
> > > Attached is the current ui-changing patch (I committed most of the
> > > mechanism to HEAD already).  The text changed a bit from what seth last
> > > suggested to me, so I'm Ccing him for comments on the actual text.
> >
> > Ok. It seems many current Nautilus messages use "Cannot" or "Can't"
> > instead of "Can not", so you might want to change it to one of those in
> > the first message.
> >
> > The second message is a bit long (two paragraphs). If it can be made two
> > separate paragraph-sized messages instead instead of one big
> > two-paragraph message, then that is preferrable.
> 
> This sort of dialog should be very uncommon (if our mime databases are
> mostly correct), so I think its not that bad if its a bit long. Since it
> could potentially be a security issue, or at least highly confusing if
> the mime types mismatch having a good description is important.
> 
> > But these things are not terribly important, and can be fixed later if
> > the patch is urgent to get in. The patch has my approval, if the release
> > team agrees.
> 
> Due to the string-breaking qualities of the patch it would be nice to
> get it right the first time. But, yeah, its sort of urgent to get it in
> because i'd like to get it in the beta1 tarball (which was due
> yesterday).
> 
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