Re: String additions to 'gnome-control-center.HEAD'

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le samedi 21 mars 2009 à 05:04 +0100, Vincent Untz a écrit :
> Le vendredi 20 mars 2009, à 12:53 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero a écrit :
> > [Do you have a general recommendation for those "something is fubared on
> > your system" error messages?]
> 
> I generally display the (untranslated) error with some technical details
> on stderr. And if there's some feedback needed for the users and I can't
> come up with something understandable, I use a horrible string like
> "Your system is not properly configured." -- which is clearly bad, but
> has the advantage that people who are technical-enough will look at
> stderr to know more.

It might help to be a little more specific, when possible. Non-technical
users generally search help on the net, and the more specific is the
message, the more chances they will find something useful:
"An error occurred while trying to foo on bar" or
"The configuration of foo seems to be broken on your system"


Claude