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Bug 646662 - Please reword the "There are unsaved modifications to your XXX account." dialog
Please reword the "There are unsaved modifications to your XXX account." dialog
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 596986
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Accounts
2.91.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-04-03 23:13 UTC by Lucian Adrian Grijincu
Modified: 2011-04-04 10:04 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Lucian Adrian Grijincu 2011-04-03 23:13:37 UTC
The dialog informs:
  There are unsaved modifications to your XXX account.
  You are about to select another account, which will discard your changes.

And asks a question:
   Are you sure you want to proceed?

Buttons: Cancel and Discard.

Problems:
- the questions requires a YES/NO answer, buttons indicate some actions
- "cancel" and "discard" have very similar meanings. This creates multiple problems:
  - non-native English speakers with limited English knowledge won't be able to easily differentiate between the two
  - some languages (e.g. Romanian) use the same word to translate both words.
  - discard (a button that makes the user loose information) is default




I suggest switching the "Discard" button to "Discard profile changes", and default button focus to "Cancel".


Also, I believe this violates the HIG (question must be bold and first thing in the dialog): http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/2.91/windows-
alert.html.en#alerts-confirmation


If indeed the HIG is violated, suggested rewording:

   Are you sure you want to discard changes made to your XXX account?

   You have selected another account. By switching to that account, you will lose all changes make to your XXX account.

Buttons: Cancel (default focus), Discard profile changes.
Comment 1 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-04-04 10:04:36 UTC
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 596986 ***