Re: Wish no 951

In article <uce-54DB4C.20284427032007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Gregory Weston <uce@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

OK, what about this: all notices on Macs be identified by an
explicit number. E.g. ID 5014 And all Mac users have easy access
to a database of these notices in copy/pasteable text format. The
copy/pasteable text being accessible from a context menu.
tremendously useful for communications on NGs and help desks.

Wouldn't the number itself be sufficient in that case?

What would a number mean to an average Mac user?

I'm not entirely sure what's meant be "all notices" to be honest. Is
this just about being able to get at the text of messages that come from
the OS itself (albeit sometimes through an application) such as error
codes?


This is the sort of thing, yes.

If so, it'd take cooperation by developers to get them to also present
the error code number instead of completely suppressing it in favor of
the human-meaningful message.

I assume I was not understood to be favouring a number instead of
a friendly message. Yes indeed, it would take cooperation. I do
not live in hope.

--
dorayme
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