[705] in athena10
Re: Dash sunset effort
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Fri Dec 5 17:37:27 2008
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 17:33:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
cc: athena10@mit.edu
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Looks good to me.
-Tim Abbott
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>
> On Dec 2, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>
>> There's also skip_dash and skip_xlogout. I can't remember what we decided
>> about Dash - are we completely de-supporting it? If so, we should probably
>> make some outreach to current Dash users. I will attempt to crawl AFS and
>> get a list of people who have .athena_dash_interface files.
>>
>
> There are 183 accounts with ~/.athena_dash_interface. I think that's a small
> enough number that we should just send them mail, and not bother including
> anything in the startup scripts that checks for ~/.athena_dash_interface and
> annoys the user via zenity.
>
> Unless there are any objections, I plan on sending the following e-mail out
> in the next 2 weeks. Feel free to suggest edits to the text.
>
> -------------------
>
> Subject: Changes to Athena Graphical Login Environment
>
> Dear _________
>
> During IAP, Information Services & Technology will release the newest version
> of Athena: Athena 10. Athena 10 will be noticeably different from previous
> releases of Athena, and many legacy features of Athena have been removed,
> including the "Athena Dashboard" ("Dash") environment.
>
> When Athena 9.0 was released in June 2001, the Dash interface was replaced
> with a new GNOME-based interface. At the time, users could configure their
> account to continue using Dash, and your account is in this category. The
> Dash interface will no longer be available in Athena 10, and users will
> instead see a GNOME-like interface. We apologize for any inconvenience.
>
> No action is required on your part for this change to take effect -- the
> intent of this e-mail is to inform you of this upcoming change to Athena.
> This change only applies to Athena 10 machines -- if you use any Athena 9.4
> (or earlier) machine, you will still be able to use the Dash interface.
> Athena 9.4 will remain the default version in the public Athena clusters
> through the summer of 2009.
>
> For more information on Athena 10, please see http://athena10.mit.edu
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
>
