[390] in athena10
Re: Desupporting the Console
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Wed Aug 6 11:16:23 2008
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 11:14:16 -0400
On Aug 6, 2008, at 11:01 AM, Greg Hudson wrote:
> Which standard dotfiles? The Athena 9.4 xsession is not in Athena 10.
Well, right, my point was that in Athena 9.4, users expect to see
their mail displayed there. If we were just using it to report
xsession errors, I don't think users would care that we were
desupporting it. My point is that, as documented in the technical
plan, .xsession-errors is not a feature-complete replacement. If we
want to desupport the feature of having your message count displayed
at login, that's fine.
> We could use zenity to display the output of "from -t -n" but I didn't
> think it would be worth the dialog spam.
I don't think it is. If there's some applet or icon which can sit on
the user's Desktop and give them the same information, that would be
ideal, but it sounds like it's Effort(tm) and outside of the project
scope.
-Jon
