[665] in Athena User Interface
Menus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Wed Feb 7 01:12:41 2001
Message-Id: <200102070611.BAA14719@Press-Your-Luck.mit.edu>
To: aui@mit.edu, sbjones@mit.edu, kcahill@mit.edu, jlittell@mit.edu
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 01:11:11 -0500
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
Sorry I missed the meeting last Thursday - I didn't read that mail in
time to attend. [Speaking of such things, I might have a recitation
at 1pm on Thursdays for the rest of the term, unfortunately...]
I took a look at http://ma-jones.mit.edu/aui/menus.html. From what I
hear, it would be a good idea for me to reimplement the menu scheme we
have now using the top and second level menus that have been
consensed. I can do that sometime later this month, assuming no one
objects.
One thing I'll need to know - will xalf be available in the release,
and if so, how? I was fiddling with xalf and the latest Ximian
release -- at one point, xalf was making splashscreens for programs
that I started (without wrappers) from the command line in an xterm.
(That was scary, especially when it broke.) But anyway, all I would
need to know is whether or not I should integrate a wrapper script for
xalf. If so, what should the convention be for determining what kind
of feedback to give? How will the user configure xalf, and do I need
to put any flags or arguments into the invocation that the menu system
uses?
Should I use a fixed-up version of zathrun, or hack together a GTK app
that throws a message window up on the screen instead of zephyring
you?
I assume that we haven't discovered anything new about the
cross-platform issue? If not, I will continue to follow the
convention of visibly labeling, for example, which CD player works on
which platforms. zathrun, or its replacement, will emit a more
helpful message if you try to run a program that's not available on
your current platform.
Anyway, rearranging things to fit the new categories should be
straightforward enough. It looks like "Find", "Renew Authentication",
"Edit Menus", and "File Manager" have been deleted from the top
level...I shall put them under Utilities unless anyone has a better
idea.
Oh, and one last question -- do we need "Restart Panel" and "Restart
Sawfish" items?
-B.
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Christopher Beland - http://web.mit.edu/beland/www/contact.html
MIT STS/Course 6 (EECS) - MIT Athena User Interface Project
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