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Subject: Re: .desktop security changes are committed
From: Michael Pyne <mpyne () purinchu ! net>
Date: 2009-02-22 23:07:18
Message-ID: 200902221807.22309.mpyne () purinchu ! net
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On Sunday 22 February 2009, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote:
> On Sunday 22 February 2009 01:04:48 pm Torsten Rahn wrote:
> > Well, I'd click through anyways just because I have a low attention span
> > and I don't feel like reading an amount of text like that. I think that
> > the text still needs to be trimmed down quite a bit.
>
> The problem with clickthrough is that if you do that without understanding
> what you are doing, you can do something potentially harmful. We want to
> try and prevent that.
>
> Right now there is so much text in the dialog that it almost discourages
> you from reading it. I was hoping to try and make the first sentence as a
> one-stop- shop of what is going on (in case you dont read the rest of the
> dialog), but it is still a bit too long to quickly understand what is going
> on. You are right that the text needs to be trimmed down a bit.
Alright so Tom and I have talked, how about something like this:
"This will start the program '%s'. If you are unsure of the origin, click
Cancel."
" (Details >>) --> would expand to name, Exec= line, perhaps the comment
info" (or Details could be a underlined link with the same info)
This is significantly less text but I think it gets the same point across.
Regards,
- Michael Pyne
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font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Sunday 22 February 2009, Celeste Lyn Paul \
wrote:<br> > On Sunday 22 February 2009 01:04:48 pm Torsten Rahn wrote:<br>
> > Well, I'd click through anyways just because I have a low attention \
span<br> > > and I don't feel like reading an amount of text like that. I think \
that<br> > > the text still needs to be trimmed down quite a bit.<br>
><br>
> The problem with clickthrough is that if you do that without understanding<br>
> what you are doing, you can do something potentially harmful. We want to<br>
> try and prevent that.<br>
><br>
> Right now there is so much text in the dialog that it almost discourages<br>
> you from reading it. I was hoping to try and make the first sentence as a<br>
> one-stop- shop of what is going on (in case you dont read the rest of the<br>
> dialog), but it is still a bit too long to quickly understand what is going<br>
> on. You are right that the text needs to be trimmed down a bit.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; \
margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; \
-qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Alright so Tom and I have talked, how about something like \
this:<br> <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; \
margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; \
-qt-user-state:0;"><br></p> "This will start the program '%s'. If you are unsure of \
the origin, click Cancel."<br> <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; \
margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; \
text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p> " (Details >>) --> would expand \
to name, Exec= line, perhaps the comment info" (or Details could be a underlined \
link with the same info)<br> <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; \
margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; \
text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>This is significantly less text but I \
think it gets the same point across.<br> <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; \
margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; \
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; \
-qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Regards,<br>
- Michael Pyne</p></body></html>
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