[25956] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.3.11: Evolution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Aug 18 13:48:25 2004
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: Richard L Garcia <rlgarcia@mit.edu>
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On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 12:35, Richard L Garcia wrote:
> I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I expect programs to run
> without giving me all kinds of arcane messages that I can do nothing
> about. Error messages also appear in the console window when Mozilla
> follows a mailto link.
I agree, but it's a fact of life that GNOME programs spew these things.
(KDE programs spew even more.) We don't really have the resources to
clean up that many upstream cosmetic bugs.
When you say "error messages appear in the console window" for Mozilla,
do you mean in the terminal window you ran Mozilla from, or do you mean
in the Athena console window which appears in the upper right upon
login? If the latter, something is wrong; we normally redirect output
to /dev/null when running GNOME programs as part of the login sequence,
so that spew doesn't appear there. If you're running mozilla in your
.startup.X, you might want to do the same.
