Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/9] QError: Add qdev not found error

[Anthony Liguori]

address@hidden wrote:
> It's hard enough to keep localized strings updated for every release
> within a single code tree. Beyond that, you expect that every *client*
> will update its localized strings for every *server* release?

What I meant by highly structured is that you wouldn't pass a string at 
all.  There would just be an error code and whatever information went 
along with that error code.  It would be up to the client to decide how 
to present a message to the user.

From a usability perspective, this is better both for localization but 
also to ensure a consistent user experience with respect to how errors 
are described to a user.

Basically, I think the conventional wisdom in UI design is that you 
never want to pass error messages from a  server directly to a user.

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Regards,

Anthony Liguori