GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 631078
Error dialog too unfriendly - This incident has been reported
Last modified: 2011-03-17 14:04:19 UTC
Created attachment 171473 [details] error dialog Description of problem: I have set some custom dualhead configuration with gnome-display-properties. Then I clicked Make Default button. It asked me root password. I realized I don't want to do this, so I hit Cancel. I was presented with an error dialog, as attached. There are two problems with this dialog: 1. There should be no dialog. I decided to *cancel* that action, so I should not be alarmed that some error occurred. I decided that I didn't want to perform anything. 2. The dialog is extremely unfriendly. "This incident has been reported". Reported to who - police, government, GNOME hackers, my wife? I am the owner of my computer, I am the administrator of it, and yet I feel very bad and annoyed that something as trivial as cancelling a dialog has been reported to /someone/. (Of course, I am not an ordinary user, so I have an idea what that means. But try to look at it with ordinary user's eyes. Not a pretty sight.) The dialog is very hostile. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 14 Beta How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Setup some display configuration. 2. Click Make Default. 3. Click Cancel. Actual results: hostile dialog Expected results: 1. no dialog at all or at least 2. non-hostile dialog
$ pkexec /usr/sbin/gnome-display-properties-install-systemwide Error executing command as another user: Not authorized This incident has been reported. This is a problem with pkexec. There seems to be no way to handle cancellation without getting an error. Filed as: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30653
Was fixed in PolicyKit 0.101.