[sldev] Patch to Address Debit Permission Spoofing

[Able Whitman]

I agree, the wording is a bit tricky. I have already made a few changes that
I hope will make things clearer:

* The white title on the notification now says "An object wants permission
to take Linden dollars (L$) from your account."
* The buttons now say "Grant" and "Deny".
* The debit prompt (when auto-deny is off, by default) also says "You should
be careful about granting an object permission to debit money from your
account. Unless you trust this object and its creator, you should deny the
request. For additional information, click the Details button. Do you wish
to grant this request?"

I hope this wording makes translation at least a little less ambiguous or
confusing. I suppose a small improvement would be to change "Unless" to "If
you do not", as well.

--Able

On 5/30/07, Tateru Nino <tateru.nino at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
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> Alissa Sabre wrote:
> > As a non-fluent English speaker, I'd like to say something here.
> >
> >
> >> An object wants to be allowed to take money (L$) from your account.
> >>
> >
> > Hmm.  This "wants to be allowed to take" looks complecated and not
> > easy to understand...  I'm also afraid that translators of this text
> > (to publish French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, ... versions of
> > the viewer messages) may be confused.
> >
> > Why can't we say more straight?  For example,
> >
> >    An object is taking money (L$) from your accout.
> >
> Because it isn't. It's actually asking permission to take money from you
> at some future point in time, or at any future point in time that it
> wants to. It's not taking money from your account at the time that the
> question is asked.
>
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