[5095] in Athena Bugs
Bad User Interface for update notification.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Wed Jun 6 15:34:40 1990
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 90 15:34:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
While I agree that it's nice that I receive notification of an available
software update at activation time, I dislike having to sit and sit and
sit and sit and sit and sit and sit and sit until it decides it's shown
me the message for long enough.
It's nice that the message has some persistance so it doesn't get
scrolled off like any error messages do after toehold says to hit any
key to start. (Do such error messages get logged?)
Anyway, it should have two interrupt characters:
one that means "I've seen this message, get on with the activate."
and one that means "Run console login; I want to see about taking the update"
I suggest that it listen for ^P during the message display and if it
comes in, to start login on the console.
I suggest that either some other character be defined as the other
interrupt character, or that it start listening, and if another
character comes in after 20 seconds, that it continue with the activate.
-wdc
