[417] in Athena User Interface
Re: Usability testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Susan B. Jones)
Tue Sep 12 20:30:20 2000
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Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 20:32:24 -0400
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@mit.edu>, aui@mit.edu
From: "Susan B. Jones" <sbjones@MIT.EDU>
I'd go for having gedit and emacs and *office, if it's available, available
on the gnome menus and letting testers pick.
I've done a small survey of new freshmen on their computer usage (Athena
and non). Most or all of them use a variety of Windows/NT, so they'll
probably love gmc. They all now use Athena, mostly or only for checking
mail. Some plan other usage, but that's for later. So even though mail
isn't new, we should have them at least launch e-mail from the gnome menus
and send themselves some e-mail and the get it. I'm not sure I can
completely rationalize this, but it seems right. Do you want to have them
add themselves to a class list using Web moira? Can they?
The platform thing is kind of worrisome, but...
So is the plan now to wait until the beginning of October? Will there be
something ready and steady in the meantime that we can play with and
beta-test the test with?
Susan
