More low hanging fruit.

Jon Nettleton jon.nettleton at gmail.com
Sat Aug 25 01:26:01 UTC 2007


On 8/24/07, Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> wrote:
> Jon Nettleton wrote:
> > If you don't want to see this message why don't you disable eth0 from
> > coming up on boot?  This problem really has nothing to do with rhgb.
>
> Or I could just stop booting the machine to not see debug messages at
> bootup!
>
> Seriously, do you really expect the average user to do that just because
> of a bug[1] in rhgb?
>
> [1] The bug is that as soon as anything goes wrong, regardless of how
> critical it is, it starts dumping stuff out.  See how e.g. MacOSX
> handles this: it just doesn't show the user anything if it's not
> critical, but it does log to /var/log/messages.  Can't get wired because
> we're a laptop?  NOT CARE.

Much better.  So instead of dropping open the terminal you would
rather have the spinner icon turn to a spinning yield icon or
something.  I can't say that will happen for Fedora 8 but I can see
where for a desktop spin that could be doable.

Thanks
Jon




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