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Re: Revised plan for printing GUIs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Mon Jun 12 20:08:11 2000

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To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
cc: aui@MIT.EDU, cfox@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 12 Jun 2000 20:04:31 EDT."
             <200006130004.UAA20794@No-Whammies.mit.edu> 
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 20:08:06 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>


Do you mean "Will automatically log out" or do you mean "Will
automatically cancel jobs"?

Are you sure that you want a "Show this dialog again" checkbox?

tibbetts

On 6/12 you wrote:
> 
> Oops...I meant to also add the following:
> 
> 
> Deliverables:
>  - Reminder to cancel print jobs on logout
> 
> 
> By default, when a user starts to logout from Gnome-Athena, the
> default printer and all printers in ~/.recent-printers are checked one
> last time for jobs from that user.  If any are detected, the user is
> presented with a dialog box:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>                        ATTENTION!
> 
> 
> You have the following print jobs still pending:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ::show identical list to that you would get in the job watcher
> applet::
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> [Cancel all jobs]   [Do nothing]   [Do not] 
> [  and logout   ]   [and logout]   [logout]
> 
> 
>                                     (X) Show this dialog again
> 
> 
> Will automatically log out in:  30 seconds
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The countdown should prevent the undesirable case where someone thinks
> they've logged out, get up and leave, only to leave this dialog box
> active on an unsecured workstation.
> 
> 
> 

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