Review Request 110084: Make ftp error messages prettier

[Kai Uwe Broulik]

> On April 19, 2013, 1:13 p.m., David Faure wrote:
> > Well, yes, it looks nicer to my eyes because I'm not very good at german (and your "before" screenshot is in german) :-P
> > 
> > More seriously I'm not sure this will always work... what if the error message is much longer? Shouldn't it start on its own line so we don't confuse it with the kio_ftp-provided sentence, in general?
> 
> Thomas Lübking wrote:
>     What esp. should not happen is to just print "421" but indicate that this is "Error #421" or similar.
>     
>     More 2¢:
>     For more visual appeal i'd suggest to emphasize the upper (main) line (h2 or maybe just b), get rid of the empty line(s? - trailing one) and ideally get the close button top aligned (esp. since it almost looks like the icon...)
> 
> Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
>     I have no idea how long that message can actually get and if it will always start with the error number.
>     I only really encounter the too many connections message, but there are reports about other messages on BKO.
>     
>     @Thomas: that's out of the scope of kio, it's Dolphin's way of presenting error messages, so Frank is the person you want for this ;) but yes, using a labeled "Close" button like Kate does it might help.

Ping?

@Thomas: The close button confusion is no longer present since the error icon got removed from the message widget ;)


- Kai Uwe


-----------------------------------------------------------
This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit:
http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110084/#review31289
-----------------------------------------------------------


On May 7, 2013, 7:48 a.m., Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit:
> http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110084/
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> (Updated May 7, 2013, 7:48 a.m.)
> 
> 
> Review request for kdelibs and David Faure.
> 
> 
> Description
> -------
> 
> Remove linebreaks and trim the message so the ugly linebreak at the end disappears.
> 
> 
> This addresses bug 318079.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318079
> 
> 
> Diffs
> -----
> 
>   kioslave/ftp/ftp.cpp b0868d8 
> 
> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110084/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
> -------
> 
> Works and looks much nicer :)
> 
> 
> File Attachments
> ----------------
> 
> Before
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2013/04/19/ftpmessagebefore.png
> After
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2013/04/19/ftpmsgafter.png
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kai Uwe Broulik
> 
>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-core-devel/attachments/20130515/952849ea/attachment.htm>