I noticed that when opening SoundRecorder I get the error “Could not find default audio hardware: Name not found” with a “Stop” button as the only action to close out.
The error is expected for me, but was curious if ‘Stop’ should be changed to ‘Quit’. It would seem to better align with other applications, but wanted to ask here first.
Thanks!
‘Stop’ would be to close the process, if that’s the case it makes sense, ‘Quit’ to close the window, without stopping the process, would be correct, you would have to know what action to take when clicking the button.
Is it? I would expect “close” to close the window and “quit” to quit the application. I don’t think we use “stop” anywhere else?
It’s a question of the terms used, as the question was raised, which word would be most appropriate for the button!
Perhaps “Stop using that device” would make more sense if it allows to select another one.
I would think ‘Quit’ works best. Its a bit weird though since in my case the actual application never opens (or is visible, presumably because I run within a VM).
There are two alerts after init fails in SoundRecorder:
“Cannot find default audio hardware”
and
“Cannot connect to media server”
Both result in SoundRecorder not even starting. I propose to rewrite them both to:
“SoundRecorder can’t start. No default audio hardware was found.”
and
“SoundRecorder can’t start. No connection to the media server.”
For both I’d go with the standart button label of acknowledgement: “OK”.