[10] in Athena User Interface
Re: Athena User Interface Project seeks advice
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Mon May 1 14:03:19 2000
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>, Dan Winship <danw@helixcode.com>,
aui@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 01 May 2000 14:03:15 -0400
In-Reply-To: Bill Cattey's message of "Mon, 1 May 2000 13:53:14 -0400 (EDT)"
Message-ID: <u1h66sytafw.fsf@pusey.mit.edu>
Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Work with 1.0, except that the panel, and the file manager, and
> possibly other major stuff will be completely rewritten by the time we
> are ready to do real work.
I think you are inflating the risk a lot here.
Changing the panel does not mean that old configs can't be trivially
changed, or that old applets would fail to work. I think we are
supposed to be able to rely on old applets continuing to work.
If we put a lot of work into mc, then we'll have to do it again on the
new file manager. I don't think it's a huge amount of work to have to
do twice.
I think we should work with 1.0 in confidence; if there is a concrete
fear (rather than vague ones) then that's worth talking about, but I
don't see any concrete fears here.
