Dear friends,

On Tuesday 04 December 2001 23:21, ian reinhart geiser wrote:
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> On Tuesday 04 December 2001 04:16 pm, Claudiu Costin wrote about Re: To=
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> 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... :)
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> 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
  Ah, I remember :)
> message for more savvy users.  I know this is more work but I think I h=
ave
> seen it being done in a few places in KDE already.
>
> Cheers
> - -ian reinhart geiser
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> :-- Ian Reinhart Geiser --:
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  I think it will be very nice both for developers and users to have a=20
small class wich handle all sorts of unexpected errors but predictable.
An uniform approach will go ahead to consistent KDE behaviour and=20
rapid app. devel. How many times you don't spend usefull time to=20
implement another and another dialog to tell user it don't have
library foobar installed or barfoo program crashed unexpectedly=20
and you must quit application... (enter your bad story here).


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