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Bug 600182 - Change label of "Cancel" button
Change label of "Cancel" button
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.28.x
Other Solaris
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-10-31 00:16 UTC by Brian Cameron
Modified: 2013-12-16 20:14 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Brian Cameron 2009-10-31 00:16:09 UTC 
The GNOME usability people (I believe Calum) said "Cancel" would make people
think that they were canceling the login operation (as if clicking it might
allow you to "cancel" entering a password and login without authentication). 

Then we changed it to "Start Over", but then some British people told us that 
"Start Over" is poor English wording.  So we changed it to "Start Again".

Ray Strode suggests that another idea would be to make it "Switch User" so it 
mimics the Lock screen dialog (which is also a dialog asking for a password, and 
the "Switch User" button there does something very similar to what the "Cancel" 
button does here.

I like "Switch User" personally.  Sounds good to me.
Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2013-12-16 20:14:56 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.
However, you are using a version that is too old and not supported anymore. GNOME developers are no longer working on that version, so unfortunately there will not be any bug fixes for the version that you use.

By upgrading to a newer version of GNOME you could receive bug fixes and new functionality. You may need to upgrade your Linux distribution to obtain a newer version of GNOME.
Please feel free to reopen this bug if the problem still occurs with a newer version of GNOME.