Re: Warning about experimental GUI

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 11/29/2013 01:50 AM, Thorsten Liebig wrote:
> Am 29.11.2013 03:14, schrieb 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
> And if I use it regularly?? I personally would really hate it if some popup 
> dialog would annoy me with some warning I'm well aware of...
> First time use, ok. Make it hide ok. Let it reappear?? Please no....
>
> Thorsten

The timestamp is updated upon exit, so using Octave regularly means the 
dialog box wouldn't appear.  Only if the user doesn't use Octave for a 
couple weeks (month) would the warning appear.  I myself easily forget 
the state of a program or utility when working with so many programs and 
doing so many things on the computer.

I'm OK with hiding the warning message and keeping it hidden.

Dan