Comment 15 for bug 411559
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| Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote Re: Policykit-GNOME : Unfriendly message upon typing incorrect password | #15 |
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I've just discussed this with Mat, and realized I didn't explain properly why I think this should be left until after 9.10.
The User Interface Freeze exists mostly to give translators the time to translate Ubuntu. Currently the "Authentication Failure" string is indeed intimidating in English. We don't have a good idea how intimidating it is in Ubuntu's various translations; some languages may have it translated more pleasantly than others. (Unfortunately it seems that Launchpad is unable to show me how it has been translated so far.)
The crucial point is that gettext translations are keyed off the exact English text. So if we changed the English string now, all the translations of the string would be discarded, with barely any time to translate the new string. We would have made it less intimidating in English, but much more intimidating in every other language where it was already translated.
So, I agree this needs fixing, but as long as it isn't downright misleading, changing the string at this point I think would worsen it more for more people than the improvement for English readers.