[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #40365] Community news web access should be a user preference

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #40365 (project octave):

Looks good on a MinGW build.

(At first I had trouble as Octave only showed me an editor dialog about
re-creating a wiped file whose name was apparently stored in its cache, and
after clicking any button there Octave would just die.
==> Apparently interference with the settings file.
I solved it by starting a MinGW build of last week that turned out impervious
to this issue.
This might only happen to people who use the 3.7.7+ dev version, i.e. probably
a limited audience)

After wiping the settings file the welcome-wizard's second pop-up shows a
polite message, good.

Do I assume correctly that item 2. in comment #3 below should read "store the
time stamp of the last web check. If it is *less* than a day ago, don't check"
?


With this I think Octave runs quite a bit less risk of being found obtrusive
already during the welcome screen (which was the moment my firewall alerted me
that Octave wanted to silently access the web).
Thank you for this.


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