Re: [installer] One more template change?
Justin B Rye <[email protected]>
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Holger Wansing wrote: > Justin B Rye <[email protected]> wrote: >> In other words >> >> You can select the priority of question you want to see: >> - 'critical': only questions that are essential for a successful installation >> - 'high': also questions for which the default often needs to be changed >> - 'medium': also questions for which the default sometimes needs to be changed >> - 'low': all questions, even if the default only rarely needs to be changed >> >> Or perhaps putting some words back in: >> >> Please select the questions you want to be shown by priority level: >> * "critical": only show questions that are essential for a successful installation; >> * "high": also show questions for which the default often needs to be changed; >> * "medium": also show questions for which the default sometimes needs to be changed; >> * "low": show all questions, even if the default only rarely needs to be changed. > > What worries me here is, that the description for high, medium and low only differs > in just ONE word/term ("often", "sometimes", "only rarely"). > > I fear that users might get overstrained with finding the difference within the > lines... ? I don't know about you, but for me it's easier to find important differences when everything else stays constant than when they're hidden among various unimportant differences. >> Some alternatives that people might like more than I do: >> >> Please select the cutoff level for questions that you want to be asked: >> * "critical": only show questions that always require user attention; >> * "high": also show ones for which the default often needs changing; >> * "medium": also show ones for which the default sometimes needs changing; >> * "low": show all questions, even if the default only rarely needs changing. >> >>>> "For example, this question is of medium priority, and if your priority were " >>>> "already 'high' or 'critical', you wouldn't see this question." >>>> >> [...] >>>> For example, this question is of medium priority, and if your actual priority >>>> would be 'high' or 'critical', you wouldn't see this question. >> >> (I think that's a false-friend use of "actual". and it's definitely an >> unidiomatic "would", though personally I wouldn't use "were" either.) >> >> I don't like this idea that it's "my" priority that's "high". It >> isn't even the installer's priority - it's the degree of filtering >> applied to questions in *terms* of priority, and that's a horrible >> thing to have to explain concisely. Maybe we can just say: >> >> For example, this question is of medium priority, so if you had chosen to see >> only questions of 'high' or 'critical' priority, it wouldn't be shown. > > That sounds good to me. (Oh, would it be more consistent to put "medium" in quotes too? How are translators going to handle this?)