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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Error messages in kimap
From:       "Yuri Chornoivan" <yurchor () ukr ! net>
Date:       2013-11-27 15:22:35
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написане Wed, 27 Nov 2013 16:16:59 +0200, Lasse Liehu  
<lasse.liehu@gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> kimap, a library in kdepimlibs, has had poor, technical and
> translatable error messages for some time. A while ago I tried to
> improve the situation a bit by changing straight IMAP command names
> into more descriptive names. See
> https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/113907/
>
> It was then pointed out that that was merely a workaround and errors
> shouldn't be handled on IMAP command level. The error messages were
> also still too technical.
>
> Currently almost all error messages are either of the form "%1 failed,
> server replied: %2" or "%1 failed, malformed reply from the server."
> where %1 is the job name. Only a few jobs (operations) have customized
> error handling and thus better error messages.
>
> On IRC Christian Mollekopf suggested to show a non-technical error
> message to the user and leave the current technical ones untranslated
> in logs like .xsession-errors.
>
> So, what do you think?

Hi,

I would rather see what went wrong or not see any error message at all  
(the latter case is better ;) ).

Non-technical error messages are useless, they just provoke the  
meaningless bug reports.

Just my 2 cents.

Best regards,
Yuri
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