[124] in Athena User Interface
Re: RFC: Prioritized AUI component list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Maciej Stachowiak)
Mon Jun 5 21:46:39 2000
To: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Cc: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>, "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>,
Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>, aui@MIT.EDU
From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>
Date: 05 Jun 2000 18:48:23 -0700
In-Reply-To: tb@MIT.EDU's message of "05 Jun 2000 21:39:22 -0400"
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tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
> Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> One plea about doing things like this.
>
> Please don't change the default default by changing code or
> something. In other words, make the default the same as usual, and if
> you think Athena users will have a different preference, then give
> them an initial dotfile that sets it differently.
>
> Which is to say, please make the gnome dotfiles work the same on
> Athena as they do everywhere else, so people can use them in multiple
> places.
>
As far as I know, the typical GNOME setup is controlled mainly by
session management, as far as initial apps go. So it's all basically
data-driven. To have a different set of apps on startup, you open that
set of apps and save your session to the default session. I'm not sure
how that ties in with your request though.
- Maciej
