update-manager language unintuitive

[Locke]

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

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks,

we should use the same wording as software-center is doing in this case.

[Chris McGinlay (chrismcginlay)]

I would be interesting in trying to patch this, or get a branch into bzr. I am not sure how to reproduce the bug in Natty. I have tried introducing an alteration to /etc/xdg/menus/settings.menu and then running an update with update-manager. Also tried grepping for "Keep" or "Replace" etc.

Is this still a valid bug and if so, any pointers?
Thanks

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Reassigning this bug to the aptdaemon package, as the message comes from aptdaemon, as both Software Center and Update Manager use that now as a backend.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

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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[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

Actually we use Keep and Replace on the buttons.