[386] in Athena User Interface
Re: Fwd: Re: Beta, system, and usability testing, p.s.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Susan B. Jones)
Mon Aug 28 10:39:43 2000
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:39:40 -0400
To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>, "andrew m. boardman" <AMB@mit.edu>
From: "Susan B. Jones" <sbjones@MIT.EDU>
Cc: jlittell@mit.edu, beland@mit.edu, aui@mit.edu, kcahill@mit.edu
Hi Maciej,
Yes, we do plan to do testing and would also been interested in seeing your
results, also your test.
How do you plan to test? We will probably test Nautilus as part of the
interface, not separately. We plan to set up a variety of tasks that
simulate a "typical" quick logon session in which file management will play
a part but not be central.
Any ways in which he can cooperate on this will be helpful. If there are
particular things you would like us to have tested, let us know.
Susan Jones
At 8:33 PM -0700 8/25/2000, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>"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
