[456] in Athena User Interface
Status of prototype
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Mon Oct 16 04:58:46 2000
Message-Id: <200010160858.EAA03829@Press-Your-Luck.mit.edu>
To: aui@MIT.EDU, sbjones@MIT.EDU, kcahill@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 04:58:43 -0400
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
So I've got the menu system about 66% finished. It (of course) took
somewhat longer than expected, since I spent some time looking into
exactly what various programs did, so as to better categorize and
describe them (and to figure out how and where they can be launched).
I'll see if I can't finish it Monday or Tuesday. In the meantime, the
following changes await the gtest account:
* * *
- Implement a way to reset the gtest account to the state it should
have at the beginning of a test. It should have the default
dotfiles supplied by "getdot xsession panel session" (I think
that's correct) modulo /mit/gtest/changes.txt, plus the other
changes listed below.
- Finalize the panel icon set for the gtest account. Text labels
must be turned on for all items. The panel should look like this:
| --------- -------- -------- ----- ---------------- ------ -----
(*) Evolution Netscape Nautilus Xterm ----Tasklist---- Logout Clock
--------- -------- -------- ----- ---------------- ------ -----
except Evolution -> exmh
Nautilus -> gmc
(*) = Gnome footprint (menu)
- Turn on icons (in the menu system itself) - yak turned them off
- Apply AFS patches to gmc
- In gtest dotfiles, reset mime types to taste (i.e. use gedit
instead of emacs) turn off "run in terminal" where necessary
- Pre-cache certificates in gtest account
- Create a symlink from /mit/gtest/Desktop to /mit/gtest/.gnome-desktop
- Add gmc to the gtest startup sequence so desktop icons will appear
(but no file manager window should appear)
* * *
If Andrew or anyone else wants to take a crack at these, it would
expedite readiness. If not, I'll eventually get around to them
myself. They shouldn't entail much work at all, except for the AFS
patches, and a bit of finding the right people to answer small but
important questions. 8)
-B.
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