[5016] in testers
Re: Applets, feedback
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Tue Jul 17 09:01:31 2001
Message-Id: <200107171301.JAA23434@Press-Your-Luck.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: The events that comprise the history of the universe.
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 09:01:28 -0400
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
> > 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
Agreed.
> configuration once they first log in, so I'm not sure if we'll ever be
> able to take advantage of it.
Well, at a later date, we could change the default for new accounts,
and provide documentation on how to enable such feedback on old
accounts. Perhaps this could be added to the list of long-term
projects.
-B.
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