[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #40365] Community news web access should be a user preference

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #40365 (project octave):

I checked in a series of changes that do the following:

1. modify the welcome-wizard to allow setting the "check-web-for-news" option
(the default is yes).  The welcome-wizard only runs if the qt-settings file
doesn't exist.

2. store the time stamp of the last web check.  If it is more than a day ago,
don't check.

3. look for a serial number in the community news page (it's in an html
comment) and not display the news unless it is larger than the serial number
of the last displayed news page.

The "check-web-for-news" option and serial number check is disabled if you
explicitly ask for community news from the "News" menu.

If the news is not available, a default message is shown directing people to
the community news option on the web and telling them to try again when they
are connected.

We still need to allow the "check-web-for-news" option to be toggled in one of
the settings dialogs.  I think it should be put in the one for "Network"
items.  Could someone do that?  I'm not sure how to modify the settings
dialog.

Check it out and let me know what you think.

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