[592] in athena10
Re: Who engineered the debathena xsession stuff?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Wed Oct 29 00:31:21 2008
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:30:34 -0400
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
Yes, I agree 100% with the direction you propose to wit:
* Make the Athena 10 greeter look like a continuation and
enhancement of Athena 9.
* Allow it to display which configuration it is using -- Cluster,
Full-Service Private Workstation, Minimal, SIPB/Debathena.
* Experiment with a fancier background like pretty full-screen
background.
-wdc
On Oct 28, 2008, at 8:15 PM, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> 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
>>
