[183] in Athena User Interface
Thoughts on quickstations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Mon Jun 19 13:02:40 2000
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To: aui@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:02:34 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
So, one of the things that it would be good to provide is a solution
to the quickstation problem. The problem, as I see it, is that logins
on quickstations are not quick, and this is going to get worse when we
deploy aui.
What if we had a completely different style of login on quickstations,
one which did the bare minimum to get an xterm up, and exec'd a menu
over on the right side of the screen with the following buttons:
Netscape.
Mail client.
Convert to real login.
Logout.
and the bug_me style countdown. (maybe other buttons are appropriate,
whatever.)
The "Convert to real login" button would exec gnome-session and,
effectively, convert this into a real login. Of course there is the
issue of making sure Netscape and mail clients are comfortable about
having gnome start up around them, but I think it should be ok.
What do people think of something like this? I would not be planning
on delivery for a long time (like I would hack this up next spring or
something) but I would like to get a solution to quick logins figured
out now.
tibbetts
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