[15088] in Athena Bugs
Re: weirdo /usr/bin/login on quickstations?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Fields)
Thu Apr 17 11:54:09 1997
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 11:53:56 -0400
From: Craig Fields <cfields@MIT.EDU>
To: jhawk@MIT.EDU
Cc: quickcomments@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
> one could argue that the timer in the bottom corner obviates the need
> for specifying any time whatsoever in the pop-up window.
The dialog boxes have two purposes. One, to remind you that time is
passing, since you can ignore the timer. Two, to eventually get
reasonably annoying so you will log out anyway.
The timer also has two purposes. One, so at any time you can look at
it and see how long you've been there. Two, so that if someone is
inclined to kick you off they can look at the timer and know if you've
been there too long.
> If it's nonobvious to me that the qs has a 10-minute limit
That the 10 minute limit is well known is an implicit premise in the
code; why should it be nonobvious? My understanding was that this
would be posted over the quickstation(s), so the assumption is that
you should simply know this.
It might be nice if there were a timestamp in there, but I hardly
think it's a horrible flaw that there isn't.
Craig
