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Shutdown dialog should have correct punctuation

Bug #1157927 reported by Matthew Goode
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Fix Released
Low
Paolo Rotolo
Unity 7.0.0 "R series"
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

The message accompanying the shutdown dialog currently reads:

Goodbye Joe Bloggs! Are you sure you want to close down all programs and shut down the computer?

There should be a comma before the name as it addressing the user by name [1][2]. The corrected version of the above message therefore read:

Goodbye, Joe Bloggs! Are you sure you want to close down all programs and shut down the computer?

This is a minor grammatical error, but important nevertheless!

[1] http://www.grammarerrors.com/punctuation/commas-in-direct-address/
[2] http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/commas.asp

See original description

Related branches

lp:~paolorotolo/unity/fix-for-1157927
PS Jenkins bot (community): Approve (continuous-integration)
Marco Trevisan (Treviño): Approve
Diff: 29 lines (+3/-3)
1 file modified
shutdown/SessionView.cpp (+3/-3)
Matthew Goode (happyhouse19)
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Tigran Gabrielyan (tigrangab) wrote :

I'd rather it just not say "Goodbye, <username>" at all (probably because I hate my name and don't want to see it :P ).

Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Paolo Rotolo (paolorotolo)
milestone: none → 7.0.0
Revision history for this message
PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins) wrote :

Fix committed into lp:unity at revision None, scheduled for release in unity, milestone backlog

Changed in unity:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 6.12.0daily13.03.25.1-0ubuntu1

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unity (6.12.0daily13.03.25.1-0ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * Add logind support (ConsoleKit and UPower suspend/resume are being
    deprecated) (LP: #1155021)

  [ Chris Townsend ]
  * Urgent apps need higher glow intensity (LP: #1157866)
  * Launcher: Icon Backlight Mode "Edge Illumination Toggles" broken
    (regression) (LP: #1103742)

  [ Paolo Rotolo ]
  * Shutdown dialog should have correct punctuation (LP: #1157927)

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * Launcher tooltips keeps hanging on Desktop (LP: #1158378)
  * Launcher tooltips don't disappear when dash is open (LP: #1158021)
  * Some tooltip AP tests fail (LP: #1158357)

  [ Didier Roche ]
  * Unity/Libunity unit tests broken by latest glib (LP: #1159677)

  [ Ubuntu daily release ]
  * Automatic snapshot from revision 3252
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:10:17 +0000

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Stephen M. Webb (bregma) wrote :

Fix Released in Unity Unity 7.0.0 "R series".

Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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