[711] in athena10
Re: Dash sunset effort
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Dec 8 17:04:41 2008
Message-Id: <200812082153.mB8LrV72005375@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
cc: athena10@mit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:30:14 EST."
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Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:53:31 -0500
This makes it sound like all cluster machines will be upgraded to
athena10 over IAP which I don't beleive is the case. Perhaps adding
"to select cluster workstations" to the first sentence of the first
paragraph would help.
Jonathon
>
> 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,
>
>
>
