I've attached a screenshot of what I think is a much better solution (to change the website). I think this simple change would alleviate the need for any messages in the application (though still wouldn't object to "(unstable)" or "(development)" in the title bar, just not a long instructional message).
[image: Inline image 1] This can be done by adding the following HTML: <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <li>The latest stable release is: 0.8.5 (<strong>recommended</strong>)</li> <li>The latest development release is: 0.9.0</li> </ul> You could obviously make these numbers be dynamically loaded from somewhere, if that makes updating less cumbersome. This suggestion is assuming you have no control over the http://pspp.awardspace.com/ page. If you do, it would be much better to redesign it so that it has a salient link to the most stable recent release, and a harder-to-find-and-accidentally-download link to the dev version. Mark On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Friedrich Beckmann < friedrich.beckm...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > Am 02.03.2016 um 20:26 schrieb John Darrington < > j...@darrington.wattle.id.au>: > > > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 07:52:34PM +0100, Friedrich Beckmann wrote: > > > > 2 Then, as a first post-release task, let's replace the existing splash > screen with an startup window > > which must be acknowledged. Then we don't need to have any warning in > the titlebar, or in the output window. > > Please, do not let us sacrifice functionality for this purpose. Nobody > wants to acknowledge this. Nobody. Yes, nobody. > Please remember software that does want you to acknowledge something like > this. You hate it. For good reason. > > Please remember the reason for the splash screen as we discussed it > already: Inform the user that something > has happened when he started the software, if the startup time is long. > Thats it. The logo is perfect and the warning > message does not harm this purpose. > > Friedrich > > > _______________________________________________ > Pspp-users mailing list > Pspp-users@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users > >
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