Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Path: utzoo!sq!lee From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) Subject: Re: what's most important to you for R5? -- error messages Message-ID: <1990Jul11.184523.28676@sq.sq.com> Organization: SoftQuad Inc. References: Date: Wed, 11 Jul 90 18:45:23 GMT Lines: 19 [note slightly changed subject line] jpc@fctunl.rccn.pt (Jose Pina Coelho) writes >Error messages (I mean with a few more bits of information) and goes on to give a very good (IHMO...) case for more precise error messages. On the other hand, the messages are already verbose and a little on the cryptic side for non-technical users. Perhas the error-message-level should be configurable? Or should there be provision for an error daemon, like syslogd, that can try to pop up a little window with a picture of a bomb and a red border? Lee -- Liam R. E. Quin, lee@sq.com, {utai,utzoo}!sq!lee, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto ``Sun. n.s., Any thing eminently splendid'' [Johnson's dictionary (1837)]