Apport

Merge lp://qastaging/~mpt/apport/warmer-text into lp://qastaging/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk

warmer-text
Merge into trunk

Proposed by Matthew Paul Thomas on 2012-08-29

Status:	Merged
Merged at revision:	2476
Proposed branch:	lp://qastaging/~mpt/apport/warmer-text
Merge into:	lp://qastaging/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk
Diff against target:	387 lines (+83/-67) 4 files modified gtk/apport-gtk (+18/-18) kde/apport-kde (+7/-7) test/test_ui_gtk.py (+37/-25) test/test_ui_kde.py (+21/-17)
To merge this branch:	bzr merge lp://qastaging/~mpt/apport/warmer-text
Related bugs:	Link a bug report

Reviewer	Review Type	Date Requested	Status
Apport upstream developers		2012-08-29	Pending
Review via email: mp+121841@code.qastaging.launchpad.net

Description of the change

Tweaks the text of many of the error messages to make them a bit friendlier. Thanks to Matt Price for providing advice on the language.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2012-08-31:

Thanks Matthew!

I like the addition of a subtitle for a hanging application.

17 - t = (_('Sorry, the application %s has closed unexpectedly.')
18 + t = (_('The app %s has closed unexpectedly.')

I must say I don't quite like changes like this. We do not call programs "apps" in Ubuntu, and to me this looks like a gratuitous string change which breaks all translations without a real advantage.

Also, we are in UI/string freeze now, so I'd only like to change strings where absolutely necessary.

Please also notice that u'' does not work in Python 3; for using Unicode characters in strings which should work in both Python 2 and 3 we need to use crutches like b'...'.decode('UTF-8').

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2012-08-31:

I'll merge the two relevant pieces, thanks!

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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote on 2012-08-31:

In Russian & Latvian, word 'problem' has a very negative and careless meaning. "Sorry, this computer just had a bit of a problem." in Russian may imply that the computer has a problem on personal terms with the user and would rather prefer a different user. "Sorry, this computer is misbehaving a little. Report to overlords?" would sound very nice in Russian. Please add comments & translation hints, cause warmness can get lost in translation.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2012-08-31:

That was actually one of my concerns as well. At least in my ear, "your computer has a bit of a problem" sounds like mock and sneer when it just ruined an hour or two of work because of a crash. But that might be language barrier again..