Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-Id: <200109102356.f8ANusM01971@cate2-108.reshall.ou.edu> To: Michael Schaap Subject: Re: Virus Found In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Sep 2001 00:00:34 +0200." <5 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 2 DOT 20010910235917 DOT 05096e80 AT imap DOT local DOT mscha DOT com> From: Jon Cast Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:56:54 -0500 Michael Schaap wrote on Tue, 11 Sep 2001 00:00:34 +0200: > Or how about a "tip of the day" feature in cygwin1.dll that shows > one of these in a message box every time the dll is loaded? :-) > Instructions on how to turn that off will NOT be given in the > mailing list, but can only be found in the documentation and in the > FAQ. I don't think this is as good an idea as the `fortune' idea (or maybe hacking together a fortune GUI). Simply put, you DON'T want to hear from the kernel if you can help it. Furthermore, this type of kernel message, especially, implies one of three things: inflexibility in the UI (i.e., getting a Win32 message box when launching an X app), bloat in the kernel (``somehow'' dwiming what GUI library the user wants (Win32 or X), and what toolkit an X user wants, and ...), or a /really/ clever hack. Finally, as a developer I would prefer this kernel message be left out. I plan to use Cygwin as the base for some commercial apps. I want beginning users of those apps to be able to mostly ignore Cygwin's presence, but I don't see how they can ignore it if Cygwin pops up a ``tip of the day'' message (apparently) sporadically when they run one of the programs. I can accept having to modify Cygwin's settings to suppress the message, but I would rather modify /etc/profile than some kernel setting :) > - Michael Jon Cast p.s. List magnates: don't worry; I'll do everything in my power to make sure users using my setup of Cygwin don't think of posting to this list. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/