[733] in athena10
Re: Dash sunset effort
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Fri Dec 12 12:26:52 2008
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:24:54 -0500
This went out today, because I was busy yesterday and Wednesday.
My original script failed to take into account people with completely
inaccessible homedirs, and mistakenly counted them as
Dash users. I fixed this halfway through, but 33 people mistakenly
got the e-mail.
After accounting for inaccessible homedirs, there are 89 confirmed
Dash users.
-Jon
On Dec 9, 2008, at 12:57 AM, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> Here is a revised statement. I made some changes, because "Dash sub-
> menu of Dash" is awkward.
>
> I also included the last line about contacting athena10@mit.edu, and
> a Reply-To. If people feel strongly, the address can be olc instead
> of athena10 (although Dash predates all of the current consultants).
>
> I plan on sending this out on Wednesday, so send me any more changes
> soon.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Changes to Athena Graphical Login Environment
> Reply-To: athena10@mit.edu
>
> Dear _________
>
> During IAP, Information Services & Technology will release the
> newest version of Athena: Athena 10. While Athena 9.4 (the current
> version) will remain the dominant version in the public clusters
> through the end of the Spring 2009 term, Athena 10 will be available
> to early adopters and may be installed on select workstations in the
> clusters. 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 in
> Athena 10 -- the intent of this e-mail is to inform you of this
> upcoming change to Athena. However, because support for Dash is
> going away, you are encouraged to switch to the current GNOME-based
> user interface in Athena 9.4 to become familiar with it. You can do
> this by selecting the "Re-enable GNOME" command from the Dash menu.
>
> For more information on Athena 10, please see http://
> athena10.mit.edu. If you have specific questions about the Dash
> transition, please e-mail athena10@mit.edu.
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
