[5004] in testers
Re: Applets, feedback
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jul 16 11:25:11 2001
Message-Id: <200107161525.LAA15801@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 15 Jul 2001 10:06:43 EDT."
<200107151406.KAA03630@whack-a-mole.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 11:25:05 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> As promised, the applets which should be removed from the panel
I've submitted a patch.
> It's easy to trivially exploit this feature to make the magical
> "display a message on the panel when the user starts something from
> the menus" feedback method happen.
This is interesting, but I think it's too late to put something of
this complexity in the release, and we can't modify a user's panel
configuration once they first log in, so I'm not sure if we'll ever be
able to take advantage of it.
