Re: [PATCH] i18n/l10n of gvfs-cat

On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 09:31 +0100, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> 
> > > IMHO could be better prepend the program name and the file name (this is
> > > the behavior of plain cat(1)) 
> > > 
> > >         $ gvfs-cat smb://server/file.txt
> > >         gvfs-cat: smb://server/file.txt: No such file or directory
> > 
> > Yeah, that looks better.
> 
> Done. The only issue is that now the actual output is something like:
> 
>         gvfs-cat: uri:///file/name.ext: error opening file: Error
>         opening file: No such file or directory
>         
> :-(
> 
> Do I've to remove "error opening file" from gvfs-cat?

This is a more general problem of how errors reported in GErrors should
look, when you chain them like this (or even more so if you have things
like "error doing highlevel op: error doing midlevel op: lowlevel error
message"). 

Take this case, there is an error in the open_file operation, where it
can't find the file requested. Should the error from that be "No such
file or directory" or "Error opening file: No such file or directory".
It sort of depends on the context of how the message is used...


Anyway, the patch looks good to commit.