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Bug 748197 - Guidelines about error messages
Guidelines about error messages
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-devel-docs
Classification: Applications
Component: hig
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-devel-docs maintainers
gnome-devel-docs maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-04-20 16:10 UTC by Alexandre Franke
Modified: 2021-07-05 10:53 UTC
See Also:
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Description Alexandre Franke 2015-04-20 16:10:37 UTC 
There's nothing on error messages in the HIG. Can we have guidelines on what is preferred between "Cannot…", "Could not…", "Failed to…", etc. for a bit more
consistency?
Comment 1 André Klapper 2015-04-20 20:50:34 UTC 
Similar topic: Using the word "kill" (e.g. a child process).
Comment 2 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-07-05 10:53:26 UTC 
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of  gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
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