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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Too technical terms in PO's
From:       ian reinhart geiser <geiseri () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2001-12-04 21:21:37
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On Tuesday 04 December 2001 04:16 pm, Claudiu Costin wrote about Re: Too 
technical terms in PO's:
>   If numbers are so hated, how can you explain for average user difference
> between image & pixmap. How about things more complicated. Joe user
> 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... :)
What I have done on the MacOS is i make a dilog that says 
ERROR:  <Short Error Title>  <Code>
V
<A longer description of what happend here for more technical users>


Where the V is a show/hide arrow thingy.  This is cool because you can get 
the best of both worlds here.  Short error codes so that users can call a 
support line and not have to feel absolutly stupid.  And a longer error 
message for more savvy users.  I know this is more work but I think I have 
seen it being done in a few places in KDE already.

Cheers
- -ian reinhart geiser
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