[698] in Athena User Interface
Athena User Interface - Monthly Delivery Report, February 2001
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Fri Mar 2 18:33:02 2001
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 18:32:58 -0500 (EST)
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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: 2 March 2001
Project URL: http://web.mit.edu/aui/notebook/
Accomplishments Past Period:
- Completed integration of core GNOME components into Athena.
- Consulted with Training and Publications; documentation and minicourse
work will start in earnest in mid-march.
- Athena 9.0 machine running in N42 for testing/documentation/demo purposes.
- PSB has given us first cuts at panel icons, although some work remains.
Goals for Next Period:
- Update our source to the GNOME 1.4 beta 2, and hopefully the real
release version when/if it ships.
- Integrate GNOME as a seamless part of Athena 9.0. (Timeframe uncertain.)
- Build a test environment for non-Linux machines, particularly for
performance testing.
- Finish icon work with PSB.
Key Learnings:
- The core GNOME/Eazel developers have taken our recently-released
usability testing results and are very proactively acting on them and
working with MIT to make GNOME as good as it can be. This is the sort
of relationship we'd love to have with more vendors; it is good to see
it demonstrated that such an interaction can be established, and at
very low cost to boot.
Issues:
- The release schedule for GNOME 1.4 is still right on the edge of "too
late", but has not significantly slipped. What we have now is not too
bad, however.
- 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.
