[564] in Athena User Interface
testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Susan B. Jones)
Tue Jan 2 19:43:35 2001
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Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 19:44:56 -0500
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@mit.edu>, ghudson@mit.edu
From: "Susan B. Jones" <sbjones@MIT.EDU>
Cc: aui@mit.edu, jlittell@mit.edu
One of the things that we have seen rather consistently is that when
testers open Nautilus, they don't see what they expect. What they expect
is that the Nautilus window will open. Instead, the environment changes
and new icons appear on the desktop.
If I am a Windows or Mac user, I guess I would expect that the desktop
would open on start up, then I would know to open the Home/My Computer
whatever it's called icon to get to the File Manager. I guess, what we
have now is a kind of choice: do you want the Nautilus environment or the
Unix environment. Isn't that kind of half-assed? If we're heading for a
GUI environment, why not start with the GUI? I'm not sure I'm saying this
right, but...
Susan
