[591] in athena10
Re: Who engineered the debathena xsession stuff?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Tue Oct 28 20:15:56 2008
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:15:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
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I made the theme quite specifically emulating the Athena 9 look, plus the
website's colors, to emphasize continuity and that this is an Athena that
takes Athena logins. If we want to do something splashier for Athena 10, I
could certainly give it a try. (For example, if there's a pretty
full-screen picture we want to use as the background... e.g., mega-man has
a 30" Creative Commons picture of Boston at dusk somewhere).
It would be nice to have the greeter be the same between IS&T Athena and
Debathena, or if anything, have the IS&T one look similar to Athena 9. It
would just be confusing to make Debathena visually the continuation of
Athena 9, and (IS&T) Athena 10 something different, since Debathena and
Athena 9 are the two most unrelated of the three.
We could probably modify the greeter to indicate whether it's a cluster
machine, full-service private workstation, minimal standard Athena 10/SIPB
debathena-workstation, etc.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, William Cattey wrote:
> Geoff:
>
> Might you be interested in/able to do a fancier theme for an Athena 10
> greeter screen?
>
> I think the current design makes perfect sense as a "retro look" appropriate
> to debathena as the home-grown, low cost alternative to IS&T Athena. I'm
> thinking that something new that says, "This is the exciting replacement to
> the dowdy old IS&T Athena".
>
> What say you?
>
> -wdc
>
>
>
> On Oct 27, 2008, at 8:00 PM, Tim Abbott wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Greg Hudson wrote:
>>
>>> This involves learning how gdm themes work. tabbott is listed as the
>>> author, but I recall hearing that someone else in SIPB did the work?
>>
>> geofft made the theme, and I packaged it.
>>
>> -Tim Abbott
>>
>>
>
