On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 13:07:43 +0000 (GMT), Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> wrote:
I would strongly encourage release builds to show minimal error messages. A status bar message saying "not all plugins have loaded, see error log for more details" should nearly be enough or this should be dumped to the console where only testers should see it.
It won't fit to the statusbar. And if you shorten it, it will just be meaningless.
And in the console, I won't have an easy way to disable it. Which means it will be annoying as hell for those who run it mostly from console.
Gnome tells you not to do it at all. It is considered very bad user interface design.
I disagree. In some situations it's very appropriate.
If an error requiers "Dont show this message again" then it cannot be that important.
No. It is important for first time launch, and the checkbox is a way to limit it to the first time only.