So, I've decided that I just can't write error dialogs. Can someone write reasonable text for the error dialog in: src/extension/error-file.cpp. It should just tell the user that some extensions failed, and check the error log. I couldn't come up with anything that sounded good, so I just put some placeholder text in.
--Ted
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Ted Gould wrote:
So, I've decided that I just can't write error dialogs. Can someone write reasonable text for the error dialog in: src/extension/error-file.cpp. It should just tell the user that some extensions failed, and check the error log. I couldn't come up with anything that sounded good, so I just put some placeholder text in.
--Ted
How about:
"One or more extensions failed to load.
The failed extensions have been skipped. Inkscape will continue to run normally but those extensions will be unavailable. For details to troubleshoot this problem, please refer to the error log located at '%s'."
HIG on error alerts: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/windows-alert.html
Bryce
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 20:50 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
How about:
"One or more extensions failed to load.
The failed extensions have been skipped. Inkscape will continue to run normally but those extensions will be unavailable. For details to troubleshoot this problem, please refer to the error log located at '%s'."
HIG on error alerts: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/windows-alert.html
Cool, thanks. I don't know why I always get writer's block on these things -- it seems so obvious when someone else does it. It is committed.
--Ted
El lun, 24-01-2005 a las 00:19 -0700, Ted Gould escribió:
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 20:50 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
How about:
"One or more extensions failed to load.
The failed extensions have been skipped. Inkscape will continue to run normally but those extensions will be unavailable. For details to troubleshoot this problem, please refer to the error log located at '%s'."
HIG on error alerts: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/windows-alert.html
Cool, thanks. I don't know why I always get writer's block on these things -- it seems so obvious when someone else does it. It is committed.
--Ted
Hi Ted, as a translator I come across those kind of messages all the time. If you ever get blocked again, try and take a look at how others do it. For example take a .po file from a random (but preferably large) GNOME project and search for strings with the text "error" or "log file". You'll certainly find inspiration there.
Cheers,
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:14:48 -0700, Ted Gould <ted@...11...> wrote:
So, I've decided that I just can't write error dialogs. Can someone write reasonable text for the error dialog in: src/extension/error-file.cpp. It should just tell the user that some extensions failed, and check the error log. I couldn't come up with anything that sounded good, so I just put some placeholder text in.
Excellent feature! One suggestion: Can we add one more field to the error log, with a human-readable explanation and pointers, taken from the .inx, for example:
Extension "Dia Input" failed to load beacuse a dependency was not met. Dependency:: type: executable location: path string: dia comment: This extension is used for <blah blah>. To enable it, install Dia version 0.91 or later from http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/. On Windows, <blah blah>.
On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 01:53 -0400, bulia byak wrote:
Excellent feature! One suggestion: Can we add one more field to the error log, with a human-readable explanation and pointers, taken from the .inx, for example:
Heh, I knew you'd ask for that -- it is already implemented, I just need to go through the inx files and add the data.
If anyone wants to do it before me, you're welcome. You can just add a 'description' attribute to any dependency and that will get printed. The dia.inx file already has them on it's dependencies. I would infact encourage someone to go do this, it really isn't a programming task, and my time is going to be limited for the next week (and Internet access even more so). The most difficult part is finding all the links.
If you didn't see the text before, it is likely because you didn't do a 'make install' so that your .inx files weren't updated.
--Ted
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Ted Gould wrote:
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:14:48 -0700 From: Ted Gould <ted@...11...> To: Inkscape Devel List inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Error dialog help
So, I've decided that I just can't write error dialogs. Can someone write reasonable text for the error dialog in: src/extension/error-file.cpp. It should just tell the user that some extensions failed, and check the error log. I couldn't come up with anything that sounded good, so I just put some placeholder text in.
If you are really stuck this might help give you some ideas http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/windows.html#alerts-error
I suppose brevity is the best bet when it comes to error messages.
Unable to load extension [possibly specify the name of the extension here]
Check the error log for more details [provide the location of the error log here, and or a very brief suggestion as to how the user might fix the problem] [ OK ]
- Alan H
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