[Sugar-devel] Error messages in Sugar (was: Re: F11-0.88 unmerged patches summary)

[David Farning]

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Sascha Silbe
<sascha-ml-ui-sugar-devel at silbe.org> wrote:
> Excerpts from Anish Mangal's message of Thu Jul 01 21:01:17 +0000 2010:
>
>> Ok, how about a normal alert (no fancy colors), that doesn't get timed
>> out, and displays an error icon beside the text.
> +1
>
> Unlike notifications (e.g. download started/finished), error messages
> should never time out. The user needs to know about them, even if the
> error happened while transferring a large file and they went fetching
> a cup of tea in the meantime.

I am trying to envision a classroom of first graders "fetching a cup of tea":)

david