Re: [Evolution] future requests that would improve evolution

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On 17 May 2001 21:46:55 -0700, Miles Lane wrote:
> 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?

Umm, you obviously haven't read it, have you?