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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: About error messages names in KDE
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () olympusproject ! org>
Date:       2003-02-04 17:17:01
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Hi Khalid...

I agree with what you said below and will pass it on to our usability 
discussion list for further consideration and thought. Thanks =)

On Tuesday 04 February 2003 08:28, you wrote:
> As a massive and long time Oracle user I have grown addicted to Oracle
> error names as this greatly simplify my life. Whenever Oracle print an
> error message it also gives a unique name of the error with error text.
> Here for instance is a typical Oracle error message : <font 
> face="arial,helvetica,sans serif">"ORA-00205 error in identifying control
> file, check alert log for more info</font>"<br>
> <br>
> Here is a list of more oracle messages : <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
> href="http://www.orafaq.com/error/">http://www.orafaq.com/error/</a><br>
> <br>
> Why is this very important ? because this make searching for such messages
> in the web much more easier as Oracle users always&nbsp; post the error
> message with it's name. The other problem, is that as a speaker of a
> minority language, I often need to go back to&nbsp; english, to display the
> errors message in english before searching in the web, as I will probably
> find it easier in english.<br> <br>
> Searching for error messages in the web is very very important in every
> software experience, so this will be a great enhancement for the usability
> in my opinion.<br> <br>
> So, would it be possible to ask developers to always add an error number
> to their application. So for instance gnome-terminal errors, will always
> be like this : konsole-001 : blah, blah, blah, konsole-002 : blah, blah,
> etc ?. It will be also very nice to be able to past and copy the error
> message.<br> <br>
> This will really help people finding errors in the web and reporting them
> much more easier, which will in my opinion enhance KDE user experience, and
> it's stability.<br>

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Aaron J. Seigo
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