[120] in Athena User Interface
Re: RFC: Prioritized AUI component list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Maciej Stachowiak)
Mon Jun 5 20:34:12 2000
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>, Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>,
aui@MIT.EDU
From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>
Date: 05 Jun 2000 17:36:02 -0700
In-Reply-To: Bill Cattey's message of "Mon, 5 Jun 2000 19:10:38 -0400 (EDT)"
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Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU> writes:
> 2. We should DEFINITELY have an initital Xterm. But I have a
> different reason: It will minimize disruption to people who are already
> used to doing stuff with keyboard commands. Remember our criteria is
> not only
> to be good for new users, but to avoid pessimizing for old users.
You could consider gnome-terminal instead of xterm. Functionally
equivalent but looks nicer and matches the theme and such. Although
I'd consider changing the default settings to turn off the menu bar
and put the scroll bar on the left.
- Maciej
