Ah, ignore my last. I had incorrectly read the version numbering - I am still running the same version as originally reported.
Apologies for the noise. On 22/09/17 16:53, Mike Miller wrote: > Control: forwarded -1 https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52090 > > On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 23:03:57 +0100, D Haley wrote: >> 1) The GUI should be clear as to what setting the backend is currently >> using. I think it is a concern that there are two settings that have the >> capacity to be "out-of-sync". > > I've filed upstream bug https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52090 to resolve > this in Octave, so at least the settings and their behavior will agree. > > Feel free to participate there, or reply here if you think I got > something wrong in capturing this problem. > >> 2) From a debian user's/policy perspective, I think the GUI should >> default to not using a network connection for an application where this >> might be surprising to an end user. Either querying the user again, or >> defaulting to false would be best > > I will try to push for upstream to keep the default value to false. A > compromise position might be to have the first run dialog suggest that > it be enabled, but if the setting is ever deleted manually or corrupted > or unable to read in any way, it should always default to disabled. >
