[5180] in Athena Bugs
Bad User Interface for update notification.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Thu Jun 14 04:00:33 1990
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 90 04:00:08 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: wdc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: bugs[5095]
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 90 15:34:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@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.
As I understand it, the delay is intentionally quite long -- it's
supposed to get you annoyed enough that you update your workstation.
This is known as "subtle coercion" :-).
Seriously, there is supposed to be a long delay, and it is not
supposed to be easy for you to get around it, because you're supposed
to update your workstation as soon as possible when a new release
comes out.
If you don't agree with the reasoning behind that (and, I must admit,
I'm not sure I agree with it myself), I suggest youy bring it up in
athena-ws.
jik
