"Hard disk failing" notification has redundant Cancel button

[James Tait]

Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility

When I login, I get a message from gdu telling me that my hard disk is failing (it isn't, but that's a separate bug report). The notification has Cancel and OK buttons that both simply close the window. The Cancel button should be removed.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Aug 28 00:22:16 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-disk-utility 0.5-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-6.26-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-6-generic x86_64

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

I have the same issue.

[Ryan Maki (ryan.maki)]

According to the Gnome HIG:

I see this as an Information Alert, and it was not produced by a user action, therefore there should not be a Cancel button since there is no action to cancel.

http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/windows-alert.html.en#alerts-information

I also feel that instead of directing the user to "click the icon to get more information" that this Alert should have a "Details..." button to the left of the affirmation button that opens the Disk Utility. I don't feel that a user would automatically know that the new gnome-panel notification icon corresponds to this Alert, so they may not know which "icon" to click.

Since this is a new feature, and it is likely to inform a good number of users that their HDD is failing, immediately after upgrading their Ubuntu distribution ,then it should present the information as clearly as possible.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.