Notes...that flash by and are gone...(was Re: any good audio/video editing apps in macports?)

[Craig Treleaven]

At 2:05 PM +0100 2/25/13, Jan Stary wrote:
>On Feb 24 20:50:52, ctreleaven at cogeco.ca wrote:
>>  At 5:23 PM -0600 2/24/13, Jim Graham wrote:
>>  >On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 11:03:54PM +0000, Chris Jones wrote:
>  > >> On 24 Feb 2013, at 10:59pm, Jim Graham <spooky130u at gmail.com> wrote:
>[...]
>>  3) Deliver the messages in another manner:  eg, cause them to open
>>  in TextEdit or a browser window.
>
>That needs the capability to "open a window".
>No way.

Um, OS X includes this graphical user interface thingy.  We don't 
have to ignore it _all_ the time!

>  > I think a few lines of Applescript
>>  would be enough to create a new window and display all the Notes
>>  messages from an install.  (We would even have the option to use rtf
>>  or html to format the messages to improve delivery.)
>
>No fucking way.

Interesting.  Which part offends you so much:  Applescript or formatting?

>  > The user would
>>  essentially have an action list after the install.  Drawbacks:
>>  doesn't work for ssh-type connections to remote machines.  I think
>>  this could be very helpful
>
>>  Thoughts?
>
>How about: print all the meesages at the very end
>of the whole install. That's how OpenBSD does it.

That would be an improvement as long as users aren't left hanging on 
cancelled or failed installs.

Craig