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Popular locker software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghudson@MIT.EDU)
Thu Jun 19 09:42:44 2008
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:42:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <200806191342.m5JDg0qn029432@outgoing.mit.edu>
To: athena10@mit.edu
In Athena 9.4, we hijacked the GNOME panel menu entirely and, through
a complicated mechanism, outsourced its maintenance to some nebulous
group of people over in Academic Computing (a sub-department which no
longer exists). That menu structure hasn't changed since late 2005.
In Athena 10 we will not be hijacking the panel menu, but we will be
providing, via standard mechanisms, a sub-menu named "Locker Software"
providing easy access to popular software. To qualify, a piece of
software should be:
* Commercial, or otherwise not available natively in Ubuntu
* Used with reasonably high frequency
* Possessing of educational value
The poster child is Matlab. I could probably name a few other pieces
of locker software I believe to be popular off the top of my head, but
there are others here more qualified to do so. So, if you have
insight in this area, please respond with your list.
Thanks.
