[josm-dev] Cleaning up the motd

[Shaun McDonald]

On 22 Jan 2009, at 22:29, Detlef Reichl wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 22.01.2009, 22:45 +0100 schrieb Frederik Ramm:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Ulf Lamping wrote:
>>> Claudius Henrichs schrieb:
>>>> I'd like to move "2008.11.14 (1076): The "align nodes in
>>>> rectangle"(...)" and "2008.11.28 (1078): If you have the "display
>>>> boundaries of downloaded data" option enabled" to the motd  
>>>> archive. The
>>>> "Getting Started" section is not visible with 1024*768  
>>>> resolution. Any
>>>> objections?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Please go on!
>>>
>>> I would say that having 4-5 (depending on the text length) motd is  
>>> ok,
>>> more is problematic:
>>>
>>> a. doesn't fit on a smaller screen (as you've said)
>>> b. if it's too much no one will really read the messages
>>
>> JOSM could also record the items already shown, and just show those  
>> that
>> are new.

I would say show them at least 10 times, and at least the last 3, with  
some extra special important messages shown for longer.

>>
>
> Also it would be nice, it the motd would get downloaded  
> asynchronously.

+1

When I was on a really slow internet connection over Christmas, is was  
better for me to not have an internet connection than to have the  
really slow internet connection, which stalled the startup of JOSM.

Shaun