Re: Patch to correct a little wording mistake

[Milan <nalimilan club fr>]

Bryan Clark wrote:
> I'd recommend you go with the slight anthropomorphism or perhaps
> vicarious text.  Despite the fact that your system is what keeps
> disconnecting and reconnecting to the network that's not how people
> think about it.  When someone asks you if your laptop is connected to
> the network they usually say; "Are you able to connect to the
> network?" despite the obvious problem that your appendages cannot
> associate to the access point in question.  Nobody really says "Is
> your laptop connected to the network?" just because it's easier to
> leave the object out of the question and talk about the connection
> itself.
>
> "You are no longer connected to XXX"
>
> I recall the HIG recommended "jargon free" and simple messages,
I think this would be good. I can't see any issue with changing the
sentence to that one.

Would any developer be ready to perform the changes required by that
(i.e. print the name of the network)?

If you don't want to spend that time and work, I propose those two new
patches to simply change that sentence to "You are no longer connected
to the network."
applet.c.diff is for 0.7, applet-dbus-devices.c.diff for 0.6.5

Much thanks

--- src/applet.c	2007-10-29 13:58:49.000000000 +0100
+++ ../../Desktop/applet.c	2007-10-29 14:14:35.000000000 +0100
@@ -2829,7 +2829,7 @@
 #ifdef ENABLE_NOTIFY
 		if (!synthetic)
 			nma_send_event_notification (applet, NOTIFY_URGENCY_NORMAL, _("Disconnected"),
-							    _("The network connection has been disconnected."),
+							    _("You are no longer connected to the network."),
 							    "nm-no-connection");
 #endif
 

--- src/applet-dbus-devices.c	2007-04-19 20:01:13.000000000 +0200
+++ ../applet-dbus-devices.c	2007-10-29 14:06:44.000000000 +0100
@@ -957,7 +957,7 @@
 	if (GTK_WIDGET_VISIBLE (GTK_WIDGET (applet)))
 	{
 		nma_send_event_notification (applet, NOTIFY_URGENCY_NORMAL, _("Disconnected"),
-			_("The network connection has been disconnected."), "nm-no-connection");
+			_("You are no longer connected to the network."), "nm-no-connection");
 	}
 #endif
 }