[3492] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Users using dash interface
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Stone)
Fri Sep 13 01:25:40 2002
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 1:25:36 EDT
From: Larry Stone <lcs@MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: <lcs@MIT.EDU>
To: Oliver Thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, Carter Snowden <csnowden@MIT.EDU>,
Oliver Thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>, release-team@MIT.EDU, owls@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:55:30 -0400
Message-ID: <CMM.0.90.4.1031894736.lcs@defiant.mit.edu>
> On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 11:36 AM, Greg Hudson wrote:
> > On the other hand, no longer putting effort into maintaining the menus
> > might make sense.
>
> Maybe maintenance could take the form of simply removing menu items as
> they fall out of date. That way folks still using it will have
> encouragement to switch, but we also wouldn't be creating breakage for
> them.
Speaking for at least 5% of the die-hard Dash user base, that would be
just fine with me. I mostly use it for the "Logout of Athena" option
anyway, but I'd be very sad to see it go and be forced to consort
with gnomes.
Just be sure to keep building VAX binaries.
Only kidding!!
-- Larry
