GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 698659
Broken English in polkit prompt
Last modified: 2013-04-25 20:54:58 UTC
There's a typo in usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gnome.gnome-system-monitor.policy - when I try to kill a process that is running as root, the following dialog pops up: "Privileges are required to kill process" It should read: "Privileges are required to kill this process"
As this prompt should be as generic as possible, I guess I will change it to "Privileges are required to kill processes", as that implies that privileges are required to kill one process too, and still allows multiple process kill (bug 681405) to work without having to add a separate string for that. Would that be OK for you?
Thanks for the fast response! And good point, but that doesn't completely work because privileges are only required if the process belongs to another user: system-monitor allows me to kill my own processes without authentication. (Hence why I chose to include the word "this" in my suggested prompt.) So how about "Privileges are required to kill other users' processes". (I only tested this on a root process since I have a single-user system, but I presume that's how it works?) I also noticed this is also a problem for changing the priority of a process. The current message is "Privileges are required to renice process". Since you do need privileges to renice your own processes, the message "Privileges are required to renice processes" would work fine here... but how about "Privileges are required to change the priority of processes" in order to avoid the confusing technical term (I had never heard of it, myself).
I saw that we also have the same problem with renice, good point with the technical term renice, I'll fix these in the following days. Thanks for the bugreport, the feedback, it's always welcome.
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.