[385] in Athena User Interface
Re: Fwd: Re: Beta, system, and usability testing, p.s.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Maciej Stachowiak)
Fri Aug 25 23:29:42 2000
To: "andrew m. boardman" <AMB@MIT.EDU>
Cc: jlittell@MIT.EDU, beland@MIT.EDU, aui@MIT.EDU, kcahill@MIT.EDU,
sbjones@MIT.EDU
From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>
Date: 25 Aug 2000 20:33:30 -0700
In-Reply-To: "andrew m. boardman"'s message of "Thu, 24 Aug 2000 15:37:24 -0400 (EDT)"
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"andrew m. boardman" <AMB@MIT.EDU> writes:
> >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.)
There's a preview release of Nautilus available now, but I don't
recommend using it for any kind of usability testing. The second
preview release may be adequate for preliminary testing.
If you guys do any kind of formal usability testing we at Eazel would
love to see the results (we also plan to do our own).
The target date for GNOME 1.4 (which will include Nautilus and likely
also Evolution) is late October but this is not a promise, only an
estimate.
- Maciej
