[3200] in Release_7.7_team
Re: GNOME 2.0 accessibility features
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Wed Mar 27 00:33:00 2002
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Kathleen Cahill <kcahill@mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu
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Date: 27 Mar 2002 00:32:57 -0500
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I asked the Athena Release Team for guidance about the issues you
raised. I agree that the stuff that's under development for GNOME 2.0
is exciting.
GNOME 2.0 is on our radar screen. Athena will migrate to it when
it's stable. The September '02 deploy date will probably means that
nobody will see it on Athena in the 7/03 timeframe. That is because it
represents a LOT of code, and a fair bit of user interface changes that
might happen. We don't make big changes to the UI except over the
summer.
The GNOME 2.0 API's are ostensibly incompatible with the current
GNOME API's. While some things might back-port without modification,
the expectation is that the normal case is "significant effort" to do
back-porting.
The bottom line is that you'll just have to be patient for these
developments to make it out of the lab and into production. There isn't
anything we can do to hasten the process.
-wdc
