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 bug-gnu-p...@gnu.org, 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.
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