Comment 3 for bug 54329
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| Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote Re: Error when Applications menu item isn't found is highly offensive | #3 |
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frogzoo, I know perfectly well what executing a process means and what a child process is, because you and I are in the 0.01% or less of humans who will ever spend enough years on the command line to be dulled to that terminology. So enough with the "user error" talk, please. For the other 99.9% or more of humans the message is inappropriate, and completely unnecessarily so.
Sebastien, you're right, I see the bug occurs not just with menus but also with launchers on the desktop or in a folder. So
I guess there are two ways to fix this: (1) fix the string in glib, or (2) make some kind of translation (in gnome-vfs?) from the error emitted by the library into an error that is appropriate for humans. A good error message (description, reason, solutions) would be:
“gnome-think” could not be opened,
because the file “gnome-think” could
not be found.
( Locate… ) ( Delete Menu Item ) (( OK ))
But even without any useful buttons, changing "execute child process" to "run the program" would be a major improvement.