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Bug 737013 - Use of the expression "died" in a UI string
Use of the expression "died" in a UI string
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gvfs
Classification: Core
Component: sftp backend
1.23.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gvfs-maint
gvfs-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-09-20 09:51 UTC by TLE
Modified: 2014-10-13 20:55 UTC
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Description TLE 2014-09-20 09:51:01 UTC 
Hallo gvfs devs

While proofreading translations I just encountered the following string:

 #: ../daemon/gvfsbackendsftp.c:1174
 #, c-format
 msgid "The connection is closed (the underlying SSH process died)"

My personal opinion is, that referring to a connection as having "died" is more of a spoken language or possibly geek-reference thing, that I don't think is suitable for GUI strings.

In any case, I just wanted to raise the question of whether you guys think that is the best formulation for this.

Regards Kenneth

PS: In any case, surely this bug report can wait until after release.
Comment 1 Ondrej Holy 2014-09-22 09:17:02 UTC 
The string was recently changed, see Bug 615146. Maybe it would be enough to write only "The connection is closed" since it is most common reason of this error.

It means, that SSH process isn't running unexpectedly. So crash/exit/stop can be also used for it...
Comment 2 Ross Lagerwall 2014-09-27 08:42:09 UTC 
I'll change it to "The connection is closed (the underlying SSH process exited)" once we branch master.
Comment 3 TLE 2014-09-27 11:00:41 UTC 
Thanks
Comment 4 Ross Lagerwall 2014-10-13 20:55:13 UTC 
Pushed to master as 2914733df29d2889043914fa4a5a79d923aaf041. Thanks.