[Adium-devl] Confusing update request

Evan Schoenberg evan.s at dreskin.net
Sun Sep 30 15:36:39 UTC 2007


On Sep 30, 2007, at 10:44 AM, John Sanders wrote:

> When Adium is updated it presents a confusing popup titled Confirm  
> Application Change, which states and asks
>
> Adium has been updated.  Do you want to allow the new version to  
> access the same keychain items (such as passwords) as the previous  
> version?
> This change is permanent and affects all keychain items used by Adium.
>
> and offers a choice of these two responses
> Don't Change
> Change AllConfusing update request
>
> Which of those two responses answers "yes" to the question you've  
> asked?
> It may be clear to the person who wrote this popup, but it's  
> certainly not clear to me.

As Eitan said, this is a Mac OS X dialogue and not Adium's fault.   
Fortunately, it seems that Apple is aware that the 10.4 dialogue is  
horribly written and confusing :)

-Evan
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