[Bug 436981] Re: update-manager language unintuitive

[Robert Roth]

Based on the GNOME HIG[1], it is not good to have Yes/No choices in the buttons, the button texts should be written as imperative verbs. I have been thinking on how we could rephrase the question to be more accurate, but I could not come up with a better wording.
The current primary text is  "Replace your changes in '%s' with a later version of the configuration file?"
The current secondary text is "If you don't know why the file is there already, it is usually safe to replace it."
Could anyone suggest a better wording, knowing that the best would be to have the button actions as imperative verbs (like Keep and Replace, maybe Replace could be changed to Overwrite)?

[1] http://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/3.0/windows-alert.html.en
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Title:
  update-manager language unintuitive

Status in “aptdaemon” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  Current Ubuntu Karmic, using current update-manager 0.125.4, a package
  was updated which caused the software to prompt with something along
  the lines of "/etc/xdg/menus/settings.menu has been updated, do you
  wish to use the new version?", or something very similar. I'm working
  from memory, and this is my first real bug report, so please bear with
  me.

  From the wording of that question, I would expect the choices to be
  either "Yes", or "No".

  Instead, the available choices are "Keep" and "Replace". The options
  do not match the question. I believe that either the question should
  ask what action the user would like to take, and have "Keep" or
  "replace" choices, -OR- Keep with current wording, asking if I would
  like to asking if I wanted to use the new version, and giving "Yes" or
  "No" choices.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Sep 25 20:58:07 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: update-manager 1:0.125.4
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.35-generic
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686

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