[517] in Athena User Interface
Re: minutes of 14dec2000 micromeeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Susan B. Jones)
Fri Dec 15 13:26:25 2000
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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 13:26:17 -0500
To: "t. belton" <tbelton@mit.edu>
From: "Susan B. Jones" <sbjones@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>, <aui@mit.edu>
Thanks. That helps a lot. I will add it to the test. Any suggestions
about where in the test? Before or after they change the background, for
instance?
Susan
At 12:36 PM -0500 12/15/2000, t. belton wrote:
>On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Susan B. Jones wrote:
>> I'm not trying to be stupid, I am. I have no idea what a theme is or what
>> my choices are and I'm sitting in my cube at a Mac and not in 203 at the
>> Dell. Just tell me a value for x and I'll put it in the test, please?
>
>Ooops! I'm sorry. Didn't mean to make you crazy.
>
>OK. First the simple part: The test should say
>
>"Change the appearance so that all the window frames use the 'microGUI'
>theme."
>
>I'm picking 'microGUI,' one of several available themes, at random; any
>other could be used there.
>
>A "theme" is just a change of appearance, that's all. Actually there are
>two different ways the system uses the word "theme"; GNOME has one, which
>affects the way it draws buttons and other controls, and sawfish has one
>of its own which affects the way the window frame, title bar, and window
>controls are drawn. That's the one I want the user to try to change.
>
>I agree this is easier when it's seen in action.
