From: Jim Procter <jprocter@issues.jalview.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 17:07:54 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: JAL-3814 don’t automatically launch the news browser when the desktop is first opened
X-Git-Tag: Release_2_11_1_4~9^2~10
X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dcac7508c650e40ce26902ab81f3fcbf86d709eb;p=jalview.git

JAL-3814 don’t automatically launch the news browser when the desktop is first opened
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diff --git a/src/jalview/gui/BlogReader.java b/src/jalview/gui/BlogReader.java
index c43c699..1807764 100644
--- a/src/jalview/gui/BlogReader.java
+++ b/src/jalview/gui/BlogReader.java
@@ -272,13 +272,16 @@ public class BlogReader extends JPanel
 
     initItems(chan);
     updating = false;
-    boolean setvisible = checkForNew(chan, true);
-
-    if (setvisible)
+    if (!Cache.getDefault("NONEWS", false))
     {
+      boolean setvisible = checkForNew(chan, true);
+
+      if (setvisible)
+      {
 
-      Cache.log.debug("Will show jalview news automatically");
-      showNews();
+        Cache.log.debug("Will show jalview news automatically");
+        showNews();
+      }
     }
     Cache.log.debug("Completed construction of reader.");