[446] in Athena User Interface
Re: aui task list stuff
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Mon Oct 2 22:11:51 2000
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To: "andrew m. boardman" <AMB@MIT.EDU>
cc: aui@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: The events that comprise the history of the universe.
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 22:11:48 -0400
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
On the various items:
I think the "Mozilla is on the long-term Gnome plan" is actually
false, at least with regard to replacing gnome-help-browser. I think
the actual report was that Nautilus was using Mozilla componets to
render its own help pages instead of using gnome-help-browser (my bad
- I misunderstood this). I assume Mozilla will replace Netscape when
it's ready, but that's a separate issue. Perhaps we should more
thoroughly assess the feasibility of merging the web browser with the
help system vs. the actual usability impact of not doing so.
We (tibbetts) have AFS patches for gmc we haven't applied.
gZephyr is "mostly done and working" for Solaris, but so far as I know
not compiling under Linux or IRIX yet.
With regard to the User Guide, there are some packages (including
docbook) we've been unable to integrate into the AUI build so far that
represent the built-in help for certain programs.
There seems to be a slight HTML boo-boo in the Quickstation entry (the
file is still locked by amb in RCS, so I didn't fix it).
In general:
Do we need to somehow bless/justify the projects which we've added on
since the Discovery Report?
The numerical matrix and formula is pretty nifty; I'm impressed. 8)
I was just thinking about justifying tasks in terms of underlying
problems, ala http://web.mit.edu/aui/notebook/athena-use.html - which
I guess will come in more after usability testing, when we will have:
- Problem
- Attempted solution in prototype
- Improvement found from testing
- Proposed solution for production release
- Projected cost
all available to line up in a neat row. (Estimating costs will no
doubt be easier after we have a better grasp of how far the prototype
has to go before users will like it, which is what testing will do.)
Enough babbling from me,
Beland
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