Clarity in Error Dialogs

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Clarity in Error Dialogs Sun, Feb 21. 2010


I've met my share of error dialogs through the years. Ones that say "Something bad has happened. Ok?" are annoying but understandable.

However, one in gpk-update-viewer, which I encountered yesterday, is a real head-scratcher:

This dialog sometimes appears when you try to close the gpk-update-viewer window while updating and it reads:

Cannot cancel running task

There are tasks that cannot be cancelled.

[Cancel]  [Quit]

Quite apart from the fact that this dialog shouldn't appear at all -- packagekit will continue the update in the background -- the two buttons appear to mean the same thing, both of which are (according to the dialog) impossible.

(bug 567135)

Update: Richard Hughes noted in the comments that this is fixed upstream :-)

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#1 - Richard Hughes said:
2010-02-22 04:25 - (Reply)

This has been fixed in git master for about 2 months. Perhaps you want to give Fedora 13 a whirl?


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