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Re: setup 2.887 release candidate - please test


On 7 February 2018 at 01:49, Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Feb 2018 15:04:49, Jon Turney wrote:
>
>> - Query the user for action to take if a corrupt local file is found
>>
>
> works great - thanks
>
> - 'Current' is replaced by 'Best' (which is slightly different in ways
>> it's difficult to summarize briefly) and 'Sync' (which exposes the
>> --force-current (distupgrade) option through the UI).
>>
>
> i get the desire for one word labels - but im not sure how good "sync" is.
> its
> not clear in the GUI what it does, and frankly, even reading your
> description
> doesnt clear up for me what it does. i guess i would need to run "--help"
> and
> see what "--force-current" does to figure it out. that just seems like
> more work
> than it should be.
>
>  This could be improved by having a tooltip on the GUI item, explaining in
a sentence or two, what it does.

Regards,
David

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