Re: [HIG] Mini-Guidelines content

[Adam Elman <aelman users sourceforge net>]

At 10:53 AM +0100 8/17/01, Calum Benson wrote:
> Just to put a small spanner in the works, I noticed somebody mentioned
> "writing good error messages" on IRC yesterday-- I think this is
> actually really important and we should add a topic for this, as it
> doesn't seem to obviously slot into any of the ones we have.  It might
> fit under "dialogs", if we only consider message boxes, or it might
> deserve a heading of its own.  Any thoughts?

I have some ideas on this; I'd be happy to take it if nobody else wants it.

I think there are actually a couple of separate issues here.  One is 
the issue of errors caused by erroneous user input; that _might_ fit 
more under "Dialogs."  The other is system errors: network failures, 
hardware failures, etc., which I don't think fit well under Dialogs. 
I think system errors probably bear separation into a new topic, 
which I'd be happy to take.

Adam
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