From: Rasmus Villemoes <ravi@prevas.dk>
To: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Goodbody <andrew.goodbody@linaro.org>,
u-boot@lists.denx.de,
Alicja Michalska <alicja.michalska@9elements.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Environment: Change reporting "nowhere" as "magic hat" to user
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 13:33:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cyiei5is.fsf@prevas.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOMZO5AsTCxvO+QuB7CGPu9nLeNmywo6N4XkNukTWtd7KtDZ6g@mail.gmail.com> (Fabio Estevam's message of "Fri, 29 Nov 2024 08:23:57 -0300")
On Fri, Nov 29 2024, Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 7:35 AM Andrew Goodbody
> <andrew.goodbody@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 28/11/2024 15:12, Alicja Michalska wrote:
>> > Make string more user-friendly
>>
>> I disagree. I can make a guess as to what 'Loading Environment from
>> nowhere' means. To me it suggests that it has not found anywhere
>> additional to load an environment from. It is a bit awkwardly phrased
>> but it can be understood and it at least sticks to reality.
>> As for 'Loading Environment from a magic hat' - I have no idea what that
>> is trying to convey and that lack of meaning is not, IMO, user-friendly.
>
> I have the same opinion as Andrew.
Seconded. Or rather thirded [*].
If anything, the message could be changed to say "from default", "from
built-in", "from build-time default" or something along those lines else
that conveys the message that the environment comes from something
defined at compile time.
Rasmus
[*] I was pleasantly surprised to see that that actually exists:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/third#Verb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-11-29 12:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-11-28 15:12 [PATCH] Environment: Change reporting "nowhere" as "magic hat" to user Alicja Michalska
2024-11-28 18:13 ` Simon Glass
2024-11-29 10:35 ` Andrew Goodbody
2024-11-29 11:23 ` Fabio Estevam
2024-11-29 12:33 ` Rasmus Villemoes [this message]
2024-11-29 14:36 ` Tom Rini
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