[419] in Athena User Interface
Re: Usability testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Tue Sep 12 20:53:17 2000
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To: sbjones@MIT.EDU
cc: aui@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 20:53:13 -0400
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@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 like that idea a lot. Star Office 5.2 is now available to all
Athena users.
> 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?
Only if they have permission (i.e., it's a public list). We can use a
generic public one like reuse, or actually, the right thing to do
would probably be just create a fake one.
> 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?
I'm wondering this too; how close are we to getting something set up
such that we can have public binaries in one place and development
ones someplace else? It would be really nice to get a small
announcement when something changes out from under us, and not have
that just happen randomly.
-B.
