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Bug 640212 - "Error stating file" is not a friendly message
"Error stating file" is not a friendly message
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: glib
Classification: Platform
Component: gio
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtkdev
gtkdev
: 658520 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-01-21 18:51 UTC by Federico Mena Quintero
Modified: 2011-09-08 14:13 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Federico Mena Quintero 2011-01-21 18:51:53 UTC 
Several places in GIO generate GErrors that look like

  Error stating file '%s': %s

However, showing these messages in the UI is not very good - "what is 'stating'?".

I'd like to change those messages to

  Error getting information for '%s': %s

Would that make sense?

(There's another message, "Error stating file descriptor: %s"; I'm not sure if that should just be "Error getting information: %s".
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2011-01-22 13:54:38 UTC 
> Error getting information for '%s': %s

Certainly sounds better to me
Comment 2 Dan Winship 2011-09-08 12:35:36 UTC 
*** Bug 658520 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Federico Mena Quintero 2011-09-08 14:13:17 UTC 
Pushed to master as commit 571185f0.