[298] in Athena User Interface
Re: MOTD question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Wed Jul 19 15:30:58 2000
Message-Id: <200007191930.PAA01127@hikari-no-ken.mit.edu>
To: Karl Ramm <kcr@1ts.org>
cc: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>, aui@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "19 Jul 2000 14:27:02 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:30:54 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
On 7/19 you wrote:
> "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > At the risk of precipiating a senseless flamewar over a trivial
> > detail:
> >
> > Should users get the MOTD every time they log in, or only if the
> > message has changed since the last time they read it?
>
> Maybe you should duplicate the current functionality of "get_message -new" as
> called in the standard dotfiles? hmmmmmmmm?
This is likely what we will do. One issue is that I want to be able to
send people both aui-beta messages (ie: "A new default panel
configuration is available, to try it out run 'aui-beta-nuke-panel' at
the athena prompt") as well as the standard athena messages.
whatever, this is an eminently solvable problem and the threatened
flamewar is really unneccessary.
tibbetts
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