Administrative rights dialog text needs correction

[Mark Shuttleworth]

The dialog text when an application needs administrative rights has poor
text. Please can this text be changed to:

System Administration Privileges Requested
[/sbin/foo] requires administrative privileges on this system. Enter
your password to approve that request.

 affects /distros/ubuntu
 assignee <email address hidden>

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

There is some discussion about the wording in #32620. The conclusion there is:
"""
Enter your password to perform administrative tasks

The application 'APPNAME' lets you modify essential parts of your system.
"""
(http://librarian.launchpad.net/2238322/13_beautification.patch)

What do you think about this text? I think both are good (but I'm not a native speaker).

Cheers,
 Michael

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

Since the beautification patch and the current poor string was done by myself here is my comment:

I see the folllowing objections against Marks suggestion:

 - requires the knowledge of the privileges terminology
 - no reason why adminisitration privileges are required
 - gksu(do) doesn't manage administration rights by applications rather by the user, since the password is cached

So I would vote for my latest wording.

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

Michael Vogt wrote:
> """
> Enter your password to perform administrative tasks
>
> The application 'APPNAME' lets you modify essential parts of your system.
> """
>
Yes, that's better, thanks and good work!

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Fixed with the gksu_1.3.7-0ubuntu6 upload.