[126] in Athena User Interface
Re: RFC: Prioritized AUI component list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Mon Jun 5 23:07:41 2000
Message-Id: <200006060307.XAA05044@hikari-no-ken.mit.edu>
To: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>, BSG@MIT.EDU, Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>,
"Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>, Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>,
aui@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "05 Jun 2000 22:33:06 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 23:07:35 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
On 6/5 tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) wrote:
> So if you want to change what a user sees from default Gnome, do it by
> changing the user's files, and not by changing the system files.
Right, certainly if this is at all possible this is what we would do.
There is of course the question of desired functionality that cannot
be gotten though configuration files.
My personal feelings here would be to modify the code and try to make
the changes such that they would be accepted upstream (for instance, I
would hope to be able to do this for any AFS stuff).
In instances where the functionality is unlikely to be desirable
upstream, or would be much harder to implement in an upstream friendly
way (ie, gsm hacks to support moving between different platforms
though the use of ATHENA_SYS) then we just lose.
tibbetts
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