Bug 596526 - Poor message dialogs and translations in YaST printer setup
Summary: Poor message dialogs and translations in YaST printer setup
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 11.2
Classification: openSUSE
Component: YaST2 (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: All openSUSE 11.2
: P4 - Low : Minor (vote)
Target Milestone: Future 11.3
Assignee: Johannes Meixner
QA Contact: Jiri Srain
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Reported: 2010-04-14 10:23 UTC by Tristan Miller
Modified: 2016-04-15 11:01 UTC (History)
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Screenshot showing bug (27.15 KB, image/png)
2010-04-14 10:24 UTC, Tristan Miller
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Description Tristan Miller 2010-04-14 10:23:48 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 SUSE/2.0.4-3.2 SeaMonkey/2.0.4

When creating or modifying a printer setup in YaST, when finishing the following dialog boxes are displayed, respectively:

Created New Printer Setup
It takes half a minute until the config files are updated...

Modified Printer Setup
It takes half a minute until the config files are updated...

There are three issues here:

1) If the system is still performing activity and making the user wait, then it's wrong to word the message with the past tense, as if the activity has already been finished.  The messages should instead read "Creating New Printer Setup" and "Modifying Printer Setup".

2) "It takes half a minute"?  That's rather precise.  How does the system know that it's going to take exactly half a minute?  Doesn't the processing time depend on the speed of the user's computer, including CPU frequency, disk speed, and system load?  Please replace this message with a progress bar, or with a more vague "Updating configuration files..."

3) Even if it is known that the configuration files take exactly thirty minutes to update, the message is grammatically incorrect.  It should instead be "It takes half a minute to update the configuration files" or "It will be half a minute until the configuration files are updated".  You can't use the present form of "take" with "until".

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Tristan Miller 2010-04-14 10:24:20 UTC
Created attachment 354301 [details]
Screenshot showing bug
Comment 2 Johannes Meixner 2010-04-14 10:58:04 UTC
Many thanks for the English language corrections!
I am no native English speaker...
Comment 3 Johannes Meixner 2010-04-14 14:54:07 UTC
Fixed in YaST SVN revision 61706.

Now the texts are:

Creating New Printer Setup
Updating configuration files...

and

Modifying Printer Setup
Updating configuration files...
Comment 4 Johannes Meixner 2010-04-23 11:27:16 UTC
Submitted to openSUSE:Factory via submitrequest 38582
YaST:Head/yast2-printer -> openSUSE:Factory
'Fixed bnc#595612 and bnc#596526 and two testpage printing issues.'
Comment 5 Bernhard Wiedemann 2016-04-15 11:01:32 UTC
This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (596526) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/38582 Factory / yast2-printer