plan to elevation transition time

[Olly Betts]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:32:55AM +0000, Andy Waddington wrote:
> None of
> 
> aven -h
> aven --help
> aven -v
> aven --version
> 
> produce anything useful - just the
> 
> Gtk-warning **: cannot open display:
> 
> message.
> 
> It ought to be possible to get some usage info for the program without
> needing to be running X - since the man page installed with it doesn't
> tell you the version, at least the -v (--version) and -h (--help) options
> should be implemented such that they function at the command line.

Unfortunately that doesn't appear to be possible with wxWidgets.  We
don't even get as far as the constructor for the app object if there's
no X display...

> Alternatively, the man page should state that the program will not
> produce anything useful except in a windowing environment and tell
> you the version number of the program to which it relates.

Documentation patches welcome!

Cheers,
    Olly