From kde-core-devel  Tue Dec 04 21:16:36 2001
From: Claudiu Costin <claudiuc () work ! ro>
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 21:16:36 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Too technical terms in PO's
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=100750033210226

On Tuesday 04 December 2001 22:40, Rob Kaper wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 06:33:20PM +0200, Claudiu Costin wrote:
> >   There are many places where such strings occur. E.g.
> > "KBlabla::init()  died in foobar!". There exist KDebug
> > to report errors, especially fatal ones. I think a number
> > should be assigned. E.g.
> >    "KSuperApp Error code: 12345"
> >    "Please report it to author!"
>
> That's helpful how? It doesn't provide more accurate information for th=
e
> author (after all, I supposed the author knows the meaning of current
> messages) and it certainly won't make things less cryptic for users.
>
> I remember getting a lot of error 12345's with RealPlayer. When I went =
to
> the site for more info, it listed it as "Unknown error". At least I
> could've searched Google for cryptic messages.
  If numbers are so hated, how can you explain for average user differenc=
e
between image & pixmap. How about things more complicated. Joe user=20
send this number to author if it feel to be cooperative. But Joe will not
bother to send long long error message happned in KSuperApp::mangabanga()
virtual method... :)
>
> Some phrases might need to be changed for users (especially the what's =
this
> ones, I guess), but error numbers are horrible and should be avoided at=
 all
> costs. (imho)
>
> Rob

kind regards,
--=20
Claudiu Costin
<claudiuc@work.ro>