October 9

they makin’ me sekur

Posted by Bryan Clark
Filed under Design | 12 Comments

With the help of several other people (a group design!) from this years Boston GNOME Summit.  I was finally able to rework one of the important dialogs many update applications suffer from.  I think the end result is more fun, intuitive, and thus probably more secure. :)

I can haz sekret kee?

I’ve got a bunch more made up as well that I’ll post later.

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12 Responses to “they makin’ me sekur”

  1. Simon Gray on October 9th, 2007 at 3:00 pm

    You should make a lolcat hackergotchi and put it there instead of the default icon :-)

  2. Chris Cunningham on October 9th, 2007 at 3:17 pm

    Surely the iconography on the aptly-named “haz seekrit key” button isn’t correct?

    (this is still more usable than yes/no buttons btw)

    – Chris

  3. Bryan Clark on October 9th, 2007 at 3:27 pm

    Chris: That was a tough editorial decision. :) The button text was decided because the main text of the dialog is basically asking if the _Computer_ can have the key. A weird question for the person to answer in lolcat speak or regular terms.

  4. Chris Cunningham on October 9th, 2007 at 3:34 pm

    Yeah, I got the text okay, just confused about the “return” icon (as opposed to something more suitable, such as a green tickbox, or a cheezburger).

    So is there a mailing list for the lolcat L10 team yet? This is clearly an attractive niche market!

    – Chris

  5. Bryan Clark on October 9th, 2007 at 3:39 pm

    Ah, good point. The icon is the default “Continue” icon. *shrug*

    At the Summit we wondered how much work it would be to create the LOLcale we all really desire. I think using a script to handle most of the conversions and then improving the rest by hand would let us cover significant ground. :)

  6. Patrys on October 9th, 2007 at 4:03 pm

    HAI

    Are there LOLCAT bindings for GNOME?

    KTHBYE

    ;)

  7. Jeff Schroeder on October 9th, 2007 at 4:15 pm

    Please don’t post anymore. lolCats lost their appeal about a month after they were first introduced.

  8. Joseph on October 9th, 2007 at 4:17 pm

    But the *real* question is:

    Wherez kitteh?!

  9. KM3K on October 9th, 2007 at 4:53 pm

    Maybe there should be a whole en-LOL localization

  10. Ceiling Cat on October 9th, 2007 at 5:55 pm

    Hai, Ceiling Cat knows ur sekrit key. I has it!

    kthxbye

  11. Anonymous on October 10th, 2007 at 7:37 am

    gb2 /b/

  12. ch__ on October 10th, 2007 at 8:33 am

    LOL

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