[352] in Athena User Interface
Re: Usability drafts...please read...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Tue Aug 8 18:49:15 2000
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To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
cc: aui@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 08 Aug 2000 04:11:42 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 18:49:05 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
(I did not cc the non-aui people. Feel free to forward this too them
if you think it is appropriate)
On 8/8 Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> As promised, my (verbose) writeup is available at
> http://web.mit.edu/aui/notebook/usability.html. Sorry I didn't have
> it out sooner (I was out sick last week), but I hope you'll take the
> time to review what I've written so we can make the most of our actual
> facetime. 8)
Going through things, bringing up problems as they come:
http://web.mit.edu/aui/notebook/athena-use.html:
My general problem with this document is that it does not make a clear
distinction between things Beland thinks should happen and things that
will be happening. Off hand, these things are not happening or have
not been discussed with technical people:
- Graphical file manager that understands foreign formats, supports at
least kFTP and preferably SMB/SIFS (via Sharity? smbmount?) and
SSH/scp.
These are really not clearly decided:
- Prominent "help" button in AUI leads users to a help triage screen
- "Hints of the Day" available on login
- New-user login configured with help browser open.
- Ideas for Athena account configuration interface
(http://web.mit.edu/aui/notebook/customize.html)
This page contains a lot of "Beland thinks this is cool" sort of
things, which have all had little input from the rest of AUI.
- Integrated GUI handling of removable media.
- Adapting Helix Code's "bug buddy" (under discussion)
This is not under discussion. Sorry.
- Integration of help systems into Mozilla (planned by Gnome mainline)
Eh? I don't know about this, where did you here it? I thought the
new help system was integrated with Nautilus.
http://web.mit.edu/aui/notebook/usability.html: (the main doc)
> Current Development Progress
>
> As of 3am Tuesday, I had the following on my list of outstanding
> tasks. (I'm happy to deal with the last two or three.)
>
> Alpha tasks outstanding
> - aui locker rebuild
For linux this is already done.
> - Text labeling on icons needs to be committed
No, it just needs to be turned on.
> - Install missing documentation
On it.
> - gmc patches
On it.
> - Determine what root clicks should do
What is wrong with the standard GNOME setup?
> - Menu creation, configuration, and pre-testing
> - test xss fix
>
> And these are the relevant bug reports, tracked in the bug-aui
> archive. (Check there to get the full texts of these.)
>
> [0026] (8) 06/22/00 18:08 Christopher ... "Raise panels on mouseover" not
> [0057] (12) 07/07/00 05:56 Christopher ... xscreensaver preferences incons
> [0068] (81) 07/14/00 08:03 Christopher ... gmenu: "Insert Locker" is quirk
> [0078] (15) 07/26/00 16:58 Gnome User gmenu starts wrong size
> [0093] (12) 08/01/00 15:22 Christopher ... gmenu: DND borken
> [0094] (14) 08/01/00 15:44 Christopher ... gmenu UI RFE: copy functionalit
> [0081] (23) 07/29/00 05:16 Christopher ... Long delay in icon choser
This last one is not really solvable, and in my opinion not a bug. I
suppose we could throw up a status bar as the icons load, but
maintaining a local patch for this is not worth it in my opinion.
tibbetts
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