[Lazarus] [FEATURE REQUEST] Tip of the day

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 18:22:18 -0300
> silvioprog <silvioprog at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> [...]
>> Well, it was just a feature request based in an useful idea, but it can be
>> discarded without problem. :-)
> 
> Feel free to create a package that adds the TOTD.
> If it is nice, we can add it by default.

A dialogue at startup that could warn of any known major problems or 
otherwise display a tip or season's greeting might be attractive, but it 
should definitely not be enabled by default since it could be 
interpreted as a "phone home" that enabled the project to monitor 
Lazarus users.

Something like RSS might have a place here, but in any event startup 
shouldn't be delayed if connection can't be made.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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