[248] in athena10
Re: Popular locker software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Jun 19 13:55:38 2008
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
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On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 10:13 -0400, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> Remind me what's happening with psuedo-locker software such as
> OpenOffice and Acrobat Reader? Are we using the native Ubuntu
> versions? If so, what is the future of the lockers?
Native OpenOffice; I assume the locker will continue to be maintained to
some degree until 9.4 is no longer a concern.
Native PDF reader, but I think the locker is still useful for some of
the operations people perform on PDFs. The locker won't be brought to
local disk any more.
> And will we still be adding applications to the panel itself?
Not planning to at the moment. It's pretty grotty to do that.
> Has any outreach been made to pubs? I know the pocket references go
> to the printer soon, and they do include screenshots. It would
> probably be good to know what deadlines there are, so we can at least
> have a mockup for screenshots. Or will Athena 10 documentation be
> handled separately from the summer printing runs? At the very least,
> I'd imagine we won't need as much Athena 9.4 documentation.
That's more Bill's department, but I think letting the summer printing
runs be for 9.4 and handling Athena 10 documentation separately (this
year) makes the most sense.
Thanks for your input on the locker software list.
