[222] in Athena User Interface
Re: Session mgmt, MOTDs, HOTDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Ramm)
Thu Jun 22 02:37:01 2000
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: aui@MIT.EDU, "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
From: Karl Ramm <kcr@1ts.org>
Date: 22 Jun 2000 02:36:49 -0400
In-Reply-To: Bill Cattey's message of "Wed, 21 Jun 2000 12:00:37 -0400 (EDT)"
Message-Id: <uusem5qjk72.fsf@ORTHANC.MIT.EDU>
Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Excerpts from mail: 21-Jun-100 Session mgmt, MOTDs, HOTDs Christopher
> Beland@MIT.E (3412)
>
> > The Discovery documents also mention startup "hints of the day" or
> > somesuch, which Gnome has existing support for.
>
> > I don't think we should use them. I think they are very cheesy, and
> > they annoy me whenever I see a program that uses them.
>
> Agreed.
I think that you're looking at this with too much of the "experienced user"
perspective. I (and I think the rest of the discovery team echoed this)
agree that they're annoying, and I seldom hesitate to click the "never show
me this again" button. I do, however, think that they are potentially
very useful to the novice Athena user. Remember that *you* can always
click the "stop showing me these things, you freak!" button.
[Of course, I also want a way to make them run fortune and display the
results. I'd like that.]
kcr
