[667] in Athena User Interface
Athena User Interface Delivery Project - Monthly Status Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Wed Feb 7 22:34:34 2001
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 22:34:28 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200102080334.WAA11776@karst.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: delivery@mit.edu
CC: aui@mit.edu
Project Name: Athena User Interface Project
Project Leader: Andrew Boardman
Report Date: 7 February 2001
Project URL: http://web.mit.edu/aui/notebook/
Accomplishments Past Period:
- Completed discovery process with an ITAG review on 29 January.
- Finished formal usability testing.
- Produced a definite work plan for the Publishing Services Bureau, who are
working on top-level aesthetics for us.
- Integrated core GNOME libraries, plus panel and window manager (sawfish),
into Athena mainline source tree.
- Reviewed usability testing results and nailed down the top-level panel menus.
Goals for Next Period:
- Finish integrating Nautilus into Athena.
- Update source to GNOME 1.4b1, *assuming* it ships on schedule.
- Plan changes in documentation and training with Training and Publications.
Key Learnings:
- Stakeholders can see endless well-written textual justifications, but
what really gets then on board is actually *seeing* what we're working on.
Issues:
- The release schedule for GNOME 1.4 is right on the edge of "too late"
for integration with Athena 9.0; we should at least have a beta release
to work with, though.
- It is unclear whether Nautilus, the GNOME file manager, will be too
large and slow for our use in its current incarnation.
Team Dynamics:
- OK.
