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Bug 657461 - Alert text is awkward when trashing a folder on a server
Alert text is awkward when trashing a folder on a server
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Trash
3.5.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-08-26 17:43 UTC by Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
Modified: 2012-08-14 14:31 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.5/3.6


Attachments
Improve the alert text when trashing a remove file (1.29 KB, patch)
2012-08-14 03:55 UTC, William Jon McCann
committed Details | Review

Description Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) 2011-08-26 17:43:25 UTC
nautilus 3.1.4-0ubuntu3, Ubuntu Ocelot

1. In Nautilus, choose "File" > "Connect to Server", and connect to a server that you have write access to.
2. Create a folder on the server.
3. Drag the folder to the Trash in Nautilus's sidebar.

What you see:
* 'Cannot move file to the Trash, do you want to delete it immediately?"
* 'The file "test2" cannot be moved to the Trash."

What's wrong with this:
* The sentence is grammatically incomplete, and this saves only one word.
* It's a run-on sentence.
* The secondary text uses Ascii quotes.
* The secondary text doesn't add any new information to the primary text, except the filename, which could just as easily go in the primary text.
* Neither of them explain *why* the item can't be moved to the Trash.
* Most obviously, both primary and secondary text incorrectly refers to the folder as a "file".

What you should see:
* '“test2” can’t be put in the Trash, because it is on a server. Do you want to delete it immediately?'
* No secondary text, because there's nothing else to say.

[Originally reported at <http://launchpad.net/bugs/834906>.]
Comment 1 William Jon McCann 2012-08-14 03:55:46 UTC
Created attachment 221094 [details] [review]
Improve the alert text when trashing a remove file
Comment 2 Cosimo Cecchi 2012-08-14 09:21:39 UTC
Review of attachment 221094 [details] [review]:

Looks good.
Comment 3 André Klapper 2012-08-14 09:30:38 UTC
In the new patch it is not clear anymore what "%B\" is.
Translator comment would be helpful, see https://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/DevGuidelines/Use%20comments
Comment 4 William Jon McCann 2012-08-14 14:31:49 UTC
Comment on attachment 221094 [details] [review]
Improve the alert text when trashing a remove file

Pushed with translator comment.