[501] in Athena User Interface
Re: Eazel coming to give Nautilus demos
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Dec 13 17:59:10 2000
Message-Id: <200012132259.RAA30346@equal-rites.mit.edu>
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
cc: aui@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Dec 2000 17:41:03 EST."
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Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 17:59:07 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
(Only cc'd to aui, although of course Rebecca is on the aui list
anyway.)
> A key question I have for the AUI Red Tape Crash Team is: what is
> the status of our official go-ahead from senior I/S administration?
At release team it was suggested that we are almost ready to go to
delivery, pending final approval by Bob Ferrara.
In reality, of course, we've been doing this work for months, and the
release team has made a fairly final decision to at least include the
gnome libs in 8.5 and replace mwm with sawfish. We'd also like to
replace dash with panel and include nautilus in the default startup
sequence, but those tasks can be severed (if we don't get them done in
time, if the outside products aren't ready in time, if it turns out to
slow down the standard login too much, if we decide the configuration
issues are too problematic). I'm particularly concerned about our
ability to integrate Nautilus, with its current dependency on some
very bleeding-edge Gnome stuff.
