[356] in Athena User Interface
Re: Can we do a quick revision to the Usability drafts?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Wed Aug 9 13:44:06 2000
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To: aui@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: The events that comprise the history of the universe.
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 13:44:03 -0400
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
I made all the changes suggested. We should have a meeting (eitehr
separately or after today's usability meeting) to discuss AUI
priorities and processes (whee...) I think.
>> - 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.
In mail to AUI, Maciej said:
> Unfortunately that won't work for the next generation help browser,
> because we plan to not install HTML, but rather render docbook on
> the fly. However, Nautilus (the help system will be built into it)
> looks pretty clearly different from Netscape.
> However, rendering will be done using Mozilla so it should be even
> better than netscape.
I took this to mean that Nautilus-Mozilla would be replacing the
existing Gnome help browser. If this is not the case, then Bill's
original problem (the not-quite-closeness between Netscape and the
current help browser) still remains unaddressed.
>> [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.
What causes this slowdown? AFS?
-B.
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