I am still using BOINC 6.10.60 since it still contains the Messages tab. I find it extremely useful and will not upgrade BOINC since newer versions require you to open a separate window.

Instead of enabling the messages tab again, a good compromise would be to at least include the OPTION of enabling the messages tab if the user chooses to view it. This way, I can continue running a new version of BOINC and run newer projects without losing the Messages tab.

That's been proposed to the developers from the beginning and been shot down for that time as well. The messages tab isn't going to return. It has become an event log window because a lot of users found the messages tab threatening, they perceived all messages as error messages. Which is why it was 'hidden' in a separate window.

On the other hand, for us (alpha/beta-) testers being able to directly compare the running of a task in the tasks tab against the debug messages in a window next to it is very useful. Else we'd have to switch back and forth between tabs, potentially missing information.

If you truly cannot live without a messages tab, you can use eFMer's BOINCTasks, a third party Manager with a messages tab which works perfectly fine with newer versions of BOINC.

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Why not make it configurable? Have an option to enable the messages tab, defaulted to not displaying it.

Oh, and make it configurable to turn off the notices tab, and especially make it not hijack BOINC manager and switch away from the last selected tab :)

Why not make it configurable? Have an option to enable the messages tab, defaulted to not displaying it.

Aside from the abundance of bugs that may add, what will then happen is that a person with problems is asking for help on the forums... first thing he's asked to do is enable the messages tab to see the messages. Then afterwards none of the helpers will ever tell him to disable the tab again, thus there's the tab again with all the perceived error messages.

A window can be closed and will stay closed at a next opening/restarting of BOINC Manager.

But as ever, and also for...

Oh, and make it configurable to turn off the notices tab, and especially make it not hijack BOINC manager and switch away from the last selected tab :)

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