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

[Jean Gobin]

Another idea would be to pause by default on all important messages, maybe
with an CLI argument to suppress the pause for people who don't need it.




On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca>wrote:

> 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
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