[214] in Athena User Interface
Re: Session management
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Wed Jun 21 13:08:08 2000
Message-Id: <200006211707.NAA25196@hikari-no-ken.mit.edu>
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
cc: aui@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jun 2000 09:50:08 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 13:07:51 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
Holding off on this for a while is a good thing because session
managment just bubbled to the top of my stack, so I will be fixing at
least some of these bugs.
tibbetts
On 6/21 you wrote:
>
> So I just fiddled with Thomas' laptop and his Debian Gnome install.
> There are a number of serious bugs in the AUI build of the session
> manager, and some ookie technical issues we've only just uncovered.
> (DND seems to be broken in some circumstances, we discovered that
> Emacs and perhaps other programs interact badly with session
> management, and auto-detection of running programs may be broken in
> our build.) I can try to find a working build (presumably things will
> work on dig-dug which has a vanilla Helix Code install) in order to
> separate the technical bugs from the UI ones.
>
> There's also the larger issue of how I think that novice users will be
> completely bamboozled by the system as it's set up. Before I start
> bug testing, I'd like to get more background on best practices in this
> area, and try to come up with a better user requirements definition.
> (At least I know that this system fails to meet at least *one* user's
> requirements. 8)
>
> This task, however, is falling off the top of my stack. I have a
> backlog of other important draft designs to finish editing and get out
> to the list, and a ton of office suite stuff to do. So while I
> hope people can chime in with more information about what people want
> out of this sort of thing, why it's currently designed the way that it
> is, and what alternatives they think people would like, I'm going to
> put this on the back burner until at least next week.
>
> -B.
>
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