[Bug 942590] Re: update-manager misguiding text

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Hi John. Thank you for your patch. I have three small suggestions and
one big suggestion.

Small suggestions:

1. For readability, instructional text -- whether it appears in a UI or
in help -- should not include any ellipses in labels that it is
referring to. So "Updates Available..." should instead be "Updates
Available".

2. The old text had the same problem, but since you're changing it: UI
text should use typographical apostrophes ’ and quotes “”, not Ascii
quotes ' "". Abbreviated example of how to do this in Python: _(u"If you
don\u2019t want them now, choose \u201cUpdates Available\u201d later.")

3. The accessible title of the last menu is "Device", so the text should
refer to it as "the device menu", not "the Session menu".

The big suggestion is that I'd actually prefer the second sentence to be
removed altogether. :-) Two reasons for this. First, though the menu has
the accessible title "Device", that's not obvious (as you demonstrated
yourself), and there's nothing visible that hints which menu is "the
device menu" -- so the instruction probably isn't useful anyway. And
second, I'd like to move towards the design shown in
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdates#alert>, where the only
secondary text is context-sensitive (e.g. "The computer will need to
restart afterwards.").

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Title:
  update-manager misguiding text

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  In Ubuntu 11.10 (currently the latest stable version of Ubuntu) I
  found that the Update Manager has this misguiding text displayed in
  its main window when and only when the updates are available. Below
  "Software updates are available for your computer" it says this:

  "If you don't want to install them now, choose "Update Manager" from
  Applications later."

  And what is wrong here? Well, Ubuntu doesn't have the "Applications"
  menu anymore. Actually, the old desktop menus in Ubuntu are now long
  gone, so please re-word this line of text. The place where the user
  can choose to open the Update Manager later is in the menu that has a
  "power" icon in the top-right of the screen. Point the user there in
  the Update Manager when he/she has updates available. Thanks.

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