Re: MOTD in g-s-d

["Luca Cavalli" <luca cavalli gmail com>]

2007/11/20, Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>:
>
> On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 21:43 +0100, Luca Cavalli wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 08:14 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > > On Nov 19, 2007 7:21 AM, Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > yeah, console sounds better, so will add it today if, as it seems,
> > > > there's nobody against it.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Well, if you ask directly, I think it is useless hardcore unix stuff
> > > that only clutters up the desktop.
> > > So please, if you add it, make it at least easy to turn it off for distros...
> >
> > Well, I think that if you don't put anything in /etc/motd nobody will
> > ever discover this feature. On the other side, if someone writes
> > something in moft, it is a nice feature to have it displayed also on the
> > desktop.
>
> yes, the problem is that most distros have something in /etc/motd, so I
> guess we need to have a GConf setting, disabled by default, to show it
> or not.
>

Oh, I never noticed this. Indeed my Ubuntu has some useless motd
content. I didn't know that...

> What we can do though is that, once the desktop is running, if the file
> changes, we can show it always, regardless of the GConf setting. That
> is, that setting would just enable/disable showing the file's contents
> at login.
>

Well, if I turn the content display off, then I will expect to have it
turned off.
I would be nice to have only useful content displayed :)

> Does that solve everyone's worries?
> --
> Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>
>
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