Bug 473519 – Unclear/vague/uninformative messages

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Bug 473519 - Unclear/vague/uninformative messages


Summary:	Unclear/vague/uninformative messages


Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	tomboy
Classification:	Applications
Component:	General
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Target Milestone:	1.4.0
Assigned To:	Aaron D Borden
QA Contact:	Tomboy Maintainers

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Depends on:
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Reported:	2007-09-04 10:49 UTC by Gabor Kelemen
Modified:	2011-04-12 03:13 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	2.19/2.20

Attachments
Cleanup strings in sync dialogs (4.18 KB, patch) 2011-04-11 17:14 UTC, Aaron D Borden	committed	Details \| Review

Description Gabor Kelemen 2007-09-04 10:49:04 UTC

There are several messages in the Syncronization plugin I feel unappropriate, I mean messages that civilized Gnome applications do not use. These are:

#: ../Tomboy/PreferencesDialog.cs:1128
msgid "Success! You're connected!"

-should be: "Connection successful", or something like this. No need to use two sentences, and two exclamation marks in a single label . 

#: ../Tomboy/PreferencesDialog.cs:1014
msgid "WARNING: Are you sure?"

-this is a question, not a warning :). Please remove "WARNING: ".

#: ../Tomboy/PreferencesDialog.cs:1149
msgid ""
"Sorry, but something went wrong.  Please check your information and try "
"again.  The ~/.tomboy.log might be useful too."
msgstr ""

-First sentence is unnecessary, if I get a window popping up, I can know this is because something bad happened. The second is ok, but the third is vague, what can I use that file for? Perhaps should be something like "The .tomboy.log file in you home dircetory can contain information about the error". 

#: ../Tomboy/PreferencesDialog.cs:1158
msgid "Error connecting :("

-No smiley, please.

#: ../Tomboy/Addins/SshSyncService/SshSyncServiceAddin.cs:133
msgid "SSH (sshfs FUSE)"
#: ../Tomboy/Addins/WebDavSyncService/WebDavSyncServiceAddin.cs:129
msgid "WebDAV (wdfs FUSE)"

-Too many acronyms. Probably SSH and WebDav would be enough.

Comment 1 Sandy Armstrong 2007-09-04 13:41:00 UTC

Thank you for the helpful comments.  Unfortunately we're already into string freeze so these will not be changed until the next release.

Comment 2 Boyd Timothy 2008-02-26 19:15:21 UTC

Setting the default assignee and QA Contact to "tomboy-maint@gnome.bugs".

Comment 3 Benjamin Podszun 2009-02-16 19:07:24 UTC

I know it's string freeze again, but this could easily be tackled after it's over? Bugzilla really needs a way to follow-up on bugs..

Comment 4 Gabor Kelemen 2009-02-22 11:20:45 UTC

Benjamin: If you mean if it can go to 2.26.1, then probably not. Rather 2.27 material, according to the current practices.

Comment 5 Aaron D Borden 2011-04-11 17:14:14 UTC

Created attachment 185737 [details] [review]
Cleanup strings in sync dialogs

Not sure if I need to make additional changes for translators and po files.

Comment 6 Sandy Armstrong 2011-04-11 17:23:49 UTC

Looks good to me.

Comment 7 Aaron D Borden 2011-04-12 01:45:30 UTC

Pushed to master in 9ffaf114365d808a94dcab769092411a9e893322