Subject: Re: Topic: Templates and 1.0
From: Greg Evans (raisplin@rcn.com)
Date: Sun May 06 2001 - 18:49:22 CDT
How hard can it _really_ be to localize the word 'dumbass' hee hee hee
(couldn't resist)
Greg
On Sunday, May 6, 2001, at 07:40 PM, Alan Horkan wrote:
> 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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