From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Apr 17 18: 3:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AABB437B419 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:03:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id g3I13c921909 for doc@freebsd.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:03:38 -0700 Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:03:38 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: tip printing at login Message-ID: <20020417180334.A19577@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable As things stand, I feel the tips detract from the out-of-box experince and should be disabled. They aren't a bad idea, but the currently implementation isn't worth much, IMO. Some problems I see: - The hints can't seem to figure out what their audience is. Sometimes they are general tips and sometimes they are admin tips which will do nothing be confuse the user. - Actual review of the hints would be good. Many have are irrelavent most of the time (i.e. using Scroll Lock to scroll syscons). Other tell you to do things that have been the default for ages (enabling passive FTP). Yet more are ugly (why use col to print manpages when just about every one uses a modern printer that could handle the output of man -t which is actually nice looking). - Fortune doesn't have any context sensing capability so many of the tips are just plain irrelavent (how many tcsh prompt options do sh or bash users really need?) - The credits need to go. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8vhtjXY6L6fI4GtQRAg+mAJ9K1zxilvN/cI83cyV4ozRZr9+ALQCguJmP cbj6tFYqxSLZg/LFVW8Dyv0= =i6h5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message