[4426] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Resizing xstapler
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nocturne@MIT.EDU)
Wed Mar 2 14:55:12 1994
From: nocturne@MIT.EDU
To: yandros@MIT.EDU
Cc: svalente@MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, nocturne@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 02 Mar 94 12:49:36 -0500.
<9403021749.AA16561@deathtongue.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 94 14:54:46 EST
> Letting `Walkin' and `Phone' work with an empty field was an policy
> decision Matthew and I made, because it made it less likely that
> people would punt altogther if they're busy, and it was easier to
> code. Convince us otherwise (probably won't be hard)
Typing a word or two in summary ("EZ", "emacs", etc.) isn't hard; I should
think that people waste more brain-cycles clicking away zephyrs, much
less replying to them, than doing this. Plus, making this so would
reduce the number of accidental entries made by people who don't yet
know how to use xstapler (or accidentally click on it)....
> There should defiantely be a quit button.
Control-C worked for me, though a button would be nice. As long as you
don't make it bring up a "Are you sure you want to shoot yourself in the
head" dialog box....
> We thought about it and couldn't come up with any good reason to log
> usernames or hostnames. Convince us otherwise if you like.
I think that logging hostname might be useful for us to see what the
*actual* stats on the numbers of questions answered by people logged in
on a particular machine. I mean, we have a "hotseat", but the person
sitting there doesn't always handle things. Other than this, I think the
hostname would be useless.
Logging the username could be much more useful; it would help us to figure
out who we should ask to stop adding entries like "My mom called to see
how I was doing" and "Phil stopped by to say hi", and it would allow folks
to make polite recommendations to people who make entries like
"Mr. Peterson walked in and I gave him a bowl of milk and Root Oops. He
purred at me, and then left."
> Putting `Clear' in the top-level window makes some sense, but I've
> never minded it where it is now.
Put it in the top-level window. It's not necesarrily intuitively obvious that
the 'Clear' selection under 'Stock' should clear the window. I played with it
for a while before I figured that out.
> I remain unconvinced that the `date' is worthwhile, since it has to
> run /bin/date. If we turned over the logfiles periodically (nightly?)
> we'd have most of what we wanted (but not all, I admit). Comments?
It might be useful to profile the logs based on the times at which we
get the most qustions of type (foo). It would let us make Another Pretty
Chart or three. You can't have too many charts. :-)
- Eric
