[4956] in testers
Re: pine still in menus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abby Fox)
Fri Jul 6 15:44:19 2001
Message-Id: <200107061944.PAA14332@whirlwind.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Message from Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
received Fri, 06 Jul 2001 15:36:52 -0400
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 15:44:14 -0400
From: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
>> (One side-effect of doing menus local seems to be that people who
>> stay logged in for long periods don't see menu changes...)
>
>As far as I know, they wouldn't regardless, since panel reads its
>menus once at startup. For that matter, doesn't dash do the same
>thing?
Yeah, I'm sleepy today.
>(Of course, if you kick panel you don't get to see the menu changes,
>and that's not optimal. Also, local-menus doesn't get run by the
>prelogin reactivate, so there has to be several minutes between logins
>before the new menus show up. Neither problem seems fatal, though.)
(Agreed.)
