[454] in Athena User Interface
Re: results from informal usability testing (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Sat Oct 14 19:32:34 2000
Message-Id: <200010142332.TAA23074@Press-Your-Luck.mit.edu>
To: aui@MIT.EDU, sbjones@MIT.EDU, kcahill@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 19:32:31 -0400
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
A while back, Bill said:
> I think we need to DEFINITELY put the following task onto the AUI
> usability testing:
>
> Run a UNIX command
I agree.
I recommend the following:
Check the weather outside by running the following at the command
line:
athena% add -f weather
athena% weather bos -o
I don't know weather it's appropriate to drop the hint "start a new
xterm if necessary" because I think part of the motivation for doing
this is to determine how hard it is to make the connection between the
athena% prompt and the phrase "command line" and the "xterm"
program, etc.
-B.
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