Re: String freeze break for Epiphany

[Xan <xan lopez gmail com>]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Gustavo Noronha Silva<gns gnome org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 20:50 -0300, Jonh Wendell wrote:
>> Hello Xan. It's weird to me to see "Gecko" in strings like "Gecko master
>> password needed". An ordinary user may ask wth is gecko. Why not use a
>> (hopefully) more non-geek word like 'Firefox'?
>
> Firefox would not make sense, because the password is not really related
> to the Firefox application in any way.
>
> Perhaps using 'old' as the way to refer to the passwords. Something
> like:
>
> [ Master password required]
>
> Your old passwords are protected by a master password; if you want to
> import them, please type the master password.
>
> Password storage has changed, and your saved passwords need to be
> imported from the old storage into the new one if you want to continue
> using them.
>
> How does that sound? Someone please fix my verbosity =)

Well, I'd say "old" with no other adjective gives the wrong
impression, since the passwords are not "old" by any means :)

I think it's very much needed to say this is the Gecko (or Firefox...)
master password needed, because Epiphany/Gecko users needed to go a
bit out of their way to set it, so they probably knew what they were
doing, and otherwise it might be not totally clear to which master
password this is referring to. That's just my impression anyway.

Xan

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