[215] in Athena User Interface
Re: Session mgmt, MOTDs, HOTDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Wed Jun 21 13:24:31 2000
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To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
cc: aui@MIT.EDU, "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jun 2000 12:00:37 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 13:24:26 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
On 6/21 Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> Excerpts from mail: 21-Jun-100 Session mgmt, MOTDs, HOTDs Christopher
> Beland@MIT.E (3412)
>
> > The Discovery documents also mention startup "hints of the day" or
> > somesuch, which Gnome has existing support for.
>
> > I don't think we should use them. I think they are very cheesy, and
> > they annoy me whenever I see a program that uses them.
>
> Agreed.
Disagree.
> Excerpts from mail: 21-Jun-100 Session mgmt, MOTDs, HOTDs Christopher
> Beland@MIT.E (3412)
>
> > I think a much better solution would be to start up the Gnome help
> > browser, set to an appropriate Athena-specific intro page, the first
> > time (ever) a person uses Gnome-Athena. They can then turn off this
> > feature whenever they've finished reading the intro documentation and
> > feel comfortable enough with the GUI to find standard online help
> > later if they need it. Writing this documentation properly and
> > concisely is critical, and should be a required part of our first
> > public release.
>
> Agreed.
Disagree.
Since you don't offer any reasoning behind your comments, I don't
really know how to respond. I think that documentation and HOTDs solve
different problems. If HOTDs had zero cost in developer/tech writer
time then I would be all for them. Are you concerned about the cost,
or about some other issue?
I acknowledge that they don't look good, but I think that they help
enough users that the cost in terms of aestetic appeal is worth it.
tibbetts
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