[188] in Athena User Interface
Re: AUI stuff from today's Owl's meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Tue Jun 20 01:46:44 2000
Message-Id: <200006200546.BAA24900@hikari-no-ken.mit.edu>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
cc: aui@MIT.EDU, owls@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jun 2000 00:06:29 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 01:46:22 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
On 6/20 Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> 2. The Athena Office Suite effort is moving forward. It's moving off
> the AUI list. The players and structure of the effort are a little
> different from what I expected, but it looks like it will be fine.
As long as it keeps moving forward, I don't really care. I don't use
office suites and am quite happy to have it be someone else's problem.
> Today at Owls, I gave people the heads up about the Virtual locker
> thing, but I didn't call it that. I paraphrased the message you saw.
> Oliver Thomas asked "Are the AUI Discovery Team members in the loop on
> this?".
>
> I think the auidt members may have been invited to join the aui list in
> the past. The people on auidt who are not on aui are: ajfox, aurora,
> boojum, zacheiss. Most of these folks are interested in UI discussions
> but not about technical minutae. Is there some way we can have one list
> for technical minutae, and one for exchange of ideas on UI issues? My
> first thought is to re-purpose auidt. What do you folks think?
Looking over the discuss meeting, AUI doesn't really get all that much
technical minutiae, especially now that bug-aui exists. I think that
trying to seperate out the technical minutiae is probably not a good
thing. I would suggest that anyone who wants to be in on the
discussion can deal with technical minutiae, as something of a barrier
to entry.
I hope it was not a mistake to take our heads out of the sand wrt
management. I am very concerned about what will happen if this project
gets re-mired in the discovery tar pit. This is a big project, just
starting to pick up developer momentum. We need to be really careful
to not bleed and of it away in the interest of "keeping people in the
loop."
I personally believe that anything that we pull out will be superior
to what is there now, and that getting something into 8.5 is more
important than making it good. Do people disagree?
tibbetts
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