Total Commander

The message-box dialog that appears when an error occurs while setting an attribute (at least through a content plugin, not sure the same dialog is used for built-in attributes) has a number of issues that the following mock-up tries to remedy:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/68553805@N00/403541085/

The mock-up features the old error dialog at the top and the new one at the bottom. The old one has the following problems: 1) the file’s name is in the title, making it harder to spot and harder to read, 2) the wrong icon is used, as it doesn’t convey the fact that a problem occurred, 3) The description of the problem is sparse and the question equally so, 4) The layout of the text is uneven, where the name of the attribute is too close to the leading paragraph.

The new dialog features a clear title for the dialog, a better icon, a better description of what happened, a clear way to tell what file was affected, and a better question.

This should be simple to fix, but it does change the language of the dialog, so perhaps fixing it has to be a two-step process: 1) Remedy most of the issues now, and 2) fix the language in a subsequent release.

Comments?

Actually, I may even have gotten the description of what Yes will do. I forgot to check if it continues to try to set other attributes, or if it skips to the next file. Perhaps it sets other attributes, but ignores the rest defined by the plug-in that failed? Is this same dialog given when an internally managed attribute fails to be set?

So many questions...