[502] in Athena User Interface
Re: Eazel coming to give Nautilus demos
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Maciej Stachowiak)
Wed Dec 13 20:42:15 2000
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>, aui@MIT.EDU
From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>
Date: 13 Dec 2000 17:33:15 -0800
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of "Wed, 13 Dec 2000 17:59:07 -0500"
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> (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.
The magical ever-changing GNOME 1.4 release date is now end of
February or so, which should make the stuff Nautilus depends on
somewhat less bleeding-edge.
Regards,
Maciej
