[392] in athena10
Re: Desupporting the Console
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Wed Aug 6 14:04:39 2008
Message-Id: <200808061755.m76HtoqI027940@byte-me.mit.edu>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:14:16 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:55:50 -0400
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
Aside from the standard startup messages you see in the console on
login, it's currently used to get important syslogs to you, for example,
the ones that pop up when someone logs in as root under you. I'm
unhappy about the idea of that going away without a replacement. Do
we have an alternative way to support that feature?
Mitch
> 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
