[264] in Athena User Interface
Re: Program chooser & list o' lockers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Thompson)
Wed Jul 5 23:02:21 2000
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To: beland@MIT.EDU
cc: aui@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Jul 2000 18:52:20 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 23:02:16 -0400
From: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>
> Another independent but related problem is the answer to the question,
> "How do I know the name of the locker to add?"
>
> Especially with cross-locker menus, how is one supposed to know to
> add, say, "communications" and not "internet" or "instant-messaging"?
>
> Two solutions have been suggested so far: documentation and
> integration.
I think that what you call "integration" is a bad idea. For evidence,
look at the "What Runs Where" file. The "What Runs Where" file is
perpetually out of date. Locker maintainers are perpetually lame. As a
locker maintainer, I know _I_ am lame. There is no solution to this; the
maintainers are too independent. However, we can keep this from screwing
up our user interface by keeping the list of lockers in the documentation.
Of course, no one reads documentation anyway. We could put a link to
the documentation in a button in the "Insert Locker" dialog to make it
a bit easier to find.
yak
