Re: Terminate password prompts with a full stop

On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 13:05 -0500, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 04:24 +1000, Ted Percival wrote:
> > I think the password prompts would look better if they were terminated 
> > with a full stop - because they are full sentences.
> > 
> > Please CC me on replies, or on a bug report, if this needs discussion.
> 
> I agree with this in principle but I'd like to see a few additional
> changes while we're at it:
> 
> 1) Convert these password prompts to markup strings and make the
>    user and host names bold, so as to distinguish a hostname "dot"
>    from a full stop.
> 
>    (e.g. "Please enter the IMAP password for [email protected].")
>                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Bold
> 
> 2) Use consistent wording.  I prefer for previous example over:
> 
>      "Please enter the IMAP password for mbarnes on host redhat.com."
>                                          ^^^^^^^         ^^^^^^^^^^

FWIW, it was changed from "password for [email protected]" to "password
for mbarnes on host redhat.com" because some mail servers (where vhosts
are involved??) will require a user's login name to be of the form
user@vhost and so the resultant concatenation would be:

Please enter the IMAP password for [email protected]@realhost.com

which people complained was confusing (and there were hundreds+ of
complaints before we finally gave in and changed it to the current
string).

Just keep that in mind if you decide to change the current prompt.

Jeff