[381] in Athena User Interface
Re: Fwd: Re: Beta, system, and usability testing, p.s.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Thu Aug 24 15:37:29 2000
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 15:37:24 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200008241937.PAA04515@all-night-tool.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <AMB@MIT.EDU>
To: jlittell@mit.edu
CC: beland@mit.edu, aui@mit.edu, kcahill@mit.edu, sbjones@mit.edu
In-reply-to: Janet Littell's message of Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:02:38 -0400
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>Are the Nautilus file manager and Evolution e-mail expected in Nov. or at
>the end of IAP, or are these dates not clear yet? Who are the third-party
>developers?
Eazel (www.eazel.com) is working on Nautilus; Helix Code
(www.helixcode.com) is working on Evolution. As far as delivery dates, I
don't know of either company officially promising any particular date,
but I'd be happy to be wrong about that. Nautilus is by far the more
important of the two, as without a "file manager" component we're stuck.
(We can stick with exmh for an interim mail reader.)
>If you want us to test in September, perhaps the tasks could be limited to
>navigating the AUI menus to find, open, and close various applications,
>using only those parts of an application that are related to gnome.
Initial usability testing should happen *well* before November; so long
as we stick to the task list at hand (and drop a couple of file
management tasks), I think aui is stable enough to test now and should do
fine for this. (Any disagreement on this?)
How much lead time do you need to set up formal live testing? What would
you need from the development side of things, other than stable software
and a developer on hand for the actual testing?
andrew
