Re: Warning about experimental GUI

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 11/28/2013 03:02 PM, Thorsten Liebig wrote:
> Am 28.11.2013 21:36, schrieb Torsten:
> > On 28.11.2013 14:58, John W. Eaton wrote:
> > > On 11/28/2013 08:46 AM, Richard Crozier wrote:
> > >
> > > > Well, maybe some slight hyperbole, but on a small laptop screen it's a
> > > > 'noticeable' reduction I think. Your solution sounds good to me.
> > > I forgot to mention that it would be OK with me if we also made hiding
> > > the warning bar sticky so that the setting is remembered.  I just
> > > haven't done that yet, but I will try to do it unless someone else does
> > > it first.
> > >
> > > jwe
> > Instead of hiding forever, I would like to revisit Dan's suggestion,
> > that the warning reappears after a while. But instead of taking a time
> > interval the attached patch automatically hides the warning for a
> > certain number of restarts (here 20) before showing it again. Of course
> > we can chose another limit for the counter.
> >
> > Torsten
> I don't like this idea.
> Why should we annoy the GUI users with some message reappear at random??
>
> Thorsten

Seemingly at random, that is.  Nonetheless, I prefer the time-stamp 
approach because what it means is that if the user hasn't used the 
experimental GUI for a while he or she gets a reminder it is experimental.

Dan