On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 12:05:19PM -0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > Unfortunately I think that new text would be worse than the old. User- > facing words shouldn't be all-caps. "Unhandable" is not an English word > (and if you meant "unhandlable", that's an extremely uncommon word). It > is not obvious what "programming" refers to. And even when it goes badly > wrong, people who don't expand the "Details" section shouldn't ever need > to know that there is such a thing as "aptdaemon" -- it should be hard- > working but anonymous. > > Integration with apport is an excellent idea, but we still need to > explain what went wrong with the user's goal, e.g. "there was a problem > installing “Specimen Font Previewer”".
This cannot be done on the aptdaemon level, since we don't know any applications - only packages. But you could use a custom error message in software-center (the application is stored in the Transaction meta data by software-center). Each transaction has got an error (code) and error_details attribute. The first one only contains an enum of the error type. So it won't be hard to implement custom error dialogs. You could even reuse the secondary text and only replace the header, so that the header for all errors reads "Failed to install Specimen" and only the secondary text would explain what went wrong. By the way I am one of the founding members of the blatant errors and awkward grammar team in Launchpad :) -- "An unknown error occurred - This should not happen" is unhelpful https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/549877 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
