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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

After system updates I routinely get error dialogs like this and they trigger a massive wave of Weltschmerz. Who is this actionable for? What does it mean? Why does it happen? I understand the design goal of couching highly technical concepts like checkin failures and stalled event loops in "normal" language, but this is layperson-izing to the point of gibberish. I am begging you to just let your users learn things.

A macOS dialog box, reading: "You can’t open the application “Safari” because it is not responding." with an OK button.