[lang]

Present Perfect

Personal
Projects
Packages
Patches
Presents
Linux

Picture Gallery
Present Perfect

keyboard settings dialog

Filed under: General — Thomas @ 22:22

2006-09-27
22:22

I just logged into my desktop at home and it asked me the following question on login:

The X system keyboard settings differ from your current GNOME keyboard settings.

Expected was model "pc105", layout "us_intl" and no options, but the the following settings were found: model "pc105", layout "us	intl" and no options.

Which set would you like to use?

The choices were "Use X settings" and "Keep GNOME settings".

That dialog has three problems right off the bat. First of all, "the the" is a band so obscure nobody reading the dialog would catch the reference. Second, I can't tell the difference between what it expected and what it found. Third, suppose there was a difference - let's say for argument's sake that it expected "us" and not "us_intl". Which of those two would be the X settings and which would be the GNOME settings ?

At least it realizes that I might end up preferring to never see this warning again.

update: after a good night of rest, I look at the dialog again and I see there actually is a difference. One of them says us_intl, and the other says us intl, without the underscore. Who could tell ? I feel like such a dolt for blaming this dialog box now when it was me being stupid all along.

No Comments

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.

picture