Re: Warning on unreleased versions.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 06:09:16AM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 03:46:52PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 06:37:49AM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
>      > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 10:00:41AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      >      
>      >      I suggest putting it into the output window at startup, once.  
> This is
>      >      easy to do, it is likely that users will notice, and it is not as
>      >      obnoxious as some of the other options.
>      >      
>      >      For example:
>      >      
>      >      diff --git a/src/ui/gui/psppire-output-window.c 
> b/src/ui/gui/psppire-output-window.c
>      >      index 469966a..1da4b24 100644
>      >      --- a/src/ui/gui/psppire-output-window.c
>      >      +++ b/src/ui/gui/psppire-output-window.c
>      >      @@ -182,6 +182,15 @@ psppire_output_window_setup (void)
>      >         output_driver_init (d, &psppire_output_class, "PSPPIRE",
>      >                             SETTINGS_DEVICE_UNFILTERED);
>      >         output_driver_register (d);
>      >      +
>      >      +  text_item_submit (
>      >      +    text_item_create (TEXT_ITEM_PARAGRAPH,
>      >      +                      _("This is a development version of PSPP.  
> Please be "
>      >      +                        "alert to the likely possibility that it 
> contains "
>      >      +                        "more bugs than a PSPP release.  If you 
> encounter "
>      >      +                        "bugs, please consider reporting them to 
> the PSPP "
>      >      +                        "developers at address@hidden, to enable 
> them "
>      >      +                        "to be fixed.")));
>      >       }
>      >       
>      > 
>      > The wording seems find to me.
>      > 
>      > I'm not so sure that is will be as noticable as we would like - it
>      > will scroll off the top of the screen after a large output.  
>      
>      Why can't the user see it at startup?  
> 
> The output window is (at least on the window manager I use) below the data 
> window, unless
> explicitly raised.  Typically, a user will only raise that window, when she 
> explicity
> has interest in what she thinks is there.    The users who stand to benefit 
> from this 
> message, are those who are unaware of its content.  Such users will typically 
> start psppire,
> run a procedure and THEN look in the output window.  Typically the user does 
> not look in
> the output window the moment it starts up.

Perhaps PSPPIRE should raise the output window, then.