[320] in Athena User Interface
Nautilus for usability testing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Fri Jul 21 18:31:23 2000
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To: aui@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 18:31:08 -0400
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
So people have been talking about getting a Nautilus pre-release to
use during formal testing. However, it would need to be made
AFS-friendly and deal sanely with lockers (i.e. /mit/ paths vs /afs
paths) and home directories.
How much pain would this cause, and is it really worth it?
We only have about 10 days left in which to fix everything else we'd
like to have ready.
It would be better to test with Nautilus rather than gmc, but only if
Nautilus is stable enough to use for say, 15 minutes, and it has a
reasonable amount of functionality (navigating and opening files) has
been implemented.
I do think that one of the tasks we want to have users execute is
"download a file and open it" so we have to have *some* sort of
graphical file manager. The sort of question we want to answer is,
will novice users realize that the GFM exists, and how will they try
to use it? We will also be looking at GFM vs. command line access,
but which particular GFM we have installed is not that critical.
-B.
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