Re: How to suppress the annoying warning message for gmc??

[Sean Middleditch <sean middleditch iname com>]

Personally, I don't see the problem with a little checkbox that says "Display
this next time you login" or something... If a newbie unchecks it without reading
it, its their fault after all.

Sean Etc.

Sean Murphy wrote:

> I don't know too much about what is possible as far as programming, but the
> current warning requires the user to press the "Ok" button to get the warning
> to go away.  Is it possible  to make it where a pop-up comes up saying "You
> shouldn't do this..." but then that pop-up dies off on its own after 10-20
> seconds?  That way the warning still comes up to satisfy people that feel
> users need to be reminded, but it requires no action on the part of people who
> know they shouldn't be doing it, but decide to proceed on anyways.
>
> I'm just guessing, but it seems to me that the people who get annoyed by it
> aren't annoyed that it pops up, but that it requires action (however trivial)
> on their part to get it to go away.  If it just timed out on its own, they
> could log in as root and continue on their merry way destroying their system
> without warning!