"Hard disk failing" notification poorly worded.

Bug #417594 reported by John McCabe-Dansted
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gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu)
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Nominated for Karmic by ChaseVoid

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility

I get the message: (with title "gdu-notification-daemon")
  A hard disk is failing
  One of more hard disks report health
  problems. Click on the icon to get more information.

As you can see from the screen shot, there is a very prominent icon right next to the text. Clicking on this icon does absolutely nothing, "the icon" appears to refer to an icon in the panel. I suggest that the word icon should be replaced with the phrase "icon in the panel". Ideally the dialog would also show what the icon looks like so the final sentence would read.

"Click on the icon [display_icon_here] in the panel to get more information"

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Aug 23 06:36:39 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Alpha amd64 (20090812.3)
Package: gnome-disk-utility 0.4-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic x86_64

Tags: apport-bug
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John McCabe-Dansted (gmatht) wrote :
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sam tygier (samtygier) wrote :

also what is the difference between clicking 'ok' or 'cancel'? nothing. neither button does anything.

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Id2ndR (id2ndr) wrote :

Following sam tygier's comment, I'd expect a button "Ok, don't notify me again" and an other "Remind me in few days" that would be more useful that the annoying popup at each login.

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