Comment 15 for bug 283095

Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> The reason I used the phrase "Are you sure" is that asking you if you're
> sure is the sole reason these alerts need to exist, except for the
> corner case of inviting you to restart instead of logging out. They're
> there to get confirmation to prevent accidents. (Someday I'd like to
> figure out how to make accidents similarly difficult using some
> mechanism that isn't an are-you-sure alert box. ExitStrategy solves this
> for Shut Down and Restart, but not for Log Out.)
>
If I click on something and a box comes up, it's natural to me to assume
that it's to make sure I'm sure. I think asking the question just adds
words which are perceived to be of low value, and reduces the likelihood
of OTHER words being read. So please leave out the question.

> I'd be happy with switching from "restart to install software updates"
> to "restart to apply software updates" if that's more technically
> accurate. (It's shorter, too!) But I don't think it's useful to use both
> "installed" and "take effect" within the message itself. If updates
> still require a restart to take effect, they haven't been "installed" in
> the sense most people will understand that word.
>
+1
> I think explicitly confirming or cancelling will be hundreds of times
> more common than waiting for the timeout, which is why I think the
> sentence about the timeout shouldn't even use a font as large as the
> rest of the text, let alone come before the rest of the text.
>
Two font sizes will be hard to make attractive. Please leave that at the
top so I and others can see it in action, if it doesn't work in practice
we can revisit with a patch or in 9.10.

Mark