Re: [Evolution] future requests that would improve evolution

[Miles Lane <miles megapathdsl net>]

On 18 May 2001 12:26:56 +0930, Not Zed wrote:
> On 17 May 2001 21:50:53 +0500, Dan Winship wrote:
> > >     nah, i would never ask evolution to do something like that, that
> > >     would be as bad a another mail program we all know :-)
> > >     doing that i presume would pose a great security risk?
> >
> > No, not at all. Well, unless you routinely receive mp3s from the CIA or
> > something.
> >
> > >     p.p.s is there a way to remove the warning message on startup, as
> > >     its really annoying?  cheers
> >
> > The official answer is "no", although you can find the real answer in
> > the archives, or the source code.
>
> It is?  I didn't know that.

Well, why not have an opt-out button checkbox on it, just like the Gnome
Hints do when Gnome is launched the first time.  I notice that when I
turn of the automatic launching of these hints (I always do), I am
told how to go about reenabling them. This seems like a perfectly
reasonable way to handle this "welcome" screen.

Of course, if this dialog is made some sort of dynamically updated
message from the Ximian/Gnome team, perhaps having it be more permanent
makes sense (I think Communicator and Outlook do something like this,
but the message is displayed as a message, rather than as a dialog).  As
long as the text is static, what possible excuse could there be for
subjecting users to it repeatedly?

        Miles