Re: Insanely long messages in gnome-lokkit

[Christian Stimming <stimming tuhh de>]

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On Monday 01 October 2001 09:26 pm, Alan Cox wrote:
> > For me, it rather
> > looks like this belongs into some documentation files. 
>
> Seriously. Its a wizard based interface. It is there to make it easy for
> end users by throwing the info they need at them before asking the
> questions. This is an important piece of UI design because end users do not
> understand firewalls and do not use firewall tools often enough to
> internalize either the background to the decisions or the controls.
>
> Gnome-lokkit is a tool aimed at your grandmother.

On Monday 01 October 2001 09:34 pm, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> Looks like these strings are perfect to be put into the documentation
> of gnome-lokkit and referenced from the code.
> Anyway, I do not consider it a problem to the translators to translate it,
> rather than a usability issue for end-users to read all that chunk
> of information from a single window.
> If end-users are happy, then the maintainer's choce should stand.

I would agree with Simos here. If the message stays as long as it is, there 
are serious doubts about the usefulness of it in this context. I would prefer 
to keep the amount of text thrown at the user to at most one screenful of 
words. Which would eliminate the translator's headaches as well. Hm, is it 
possible to have only a short text with hyperlinks to more extensive 
documentation pages? "Redhat offers Firewall protection. <a>Read more about 
firewalls here...</a> " and so on and so forth.

Christian
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