Re: Topic: Templates and 1.0


Subject: Re: Topic: Templates and 1.0
From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Sun May 06 2001 - 18:40:19 CDT


David Chart wrote:

> Just to say that the sketched outline for templates sounds like
> *exactly* what I want to see. Good going! One thing...
>
> --On 5/5/01 23:19 -0400 Dom Lachowicz wrote:
>
>> I guess that we could:
>>
>> 1) Fall back onto our defaults
>> 2) "WTF? How did this happen? You actually overrode the read-only
>> permissions in the AbiSuite directory? MS Explorer told you not to view
>> the contents of this folder, and not to delete the read-only file.
>> You're a dumbass. AbiWord is broken and it's completely your fault.
>> Learn to deal."
>>
>> I'm clearnly in favor of #2, with this exact error message. Seriously.
>
>
> Heh. I'm just picturing the reaction of the tech support guy seeing
> this message on the CEO's monitor for the third time...
>
> I'm afraid that I think AbiWord should be dumbass-tolerant. Dumbasses
> are your target market.
>
> David Chart

I dont want to have to localise the word "dumbass" :)
I think a diplomatice generic error message blaming the user/OS and
denying that it had anything to do with Abiword would definately be
appropriate.



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