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by TeMPOraL 2843 days ago
Notice on the splash screen, a tool tip at start up, a popup at startup (anyone remembers "Tip of the day" dialogs?), a modeline/status bar (like e.g. IntelliJ IDEA does), ... there are plenty of well-established UI patterns for placing such information unobtrusively. As you said, firing up a modal in the middle of your work is unacceptable, and outright disrespectful.