[699] in Athena User Interface
Re: Athena User Interface - Monthly Delivery Report, February
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Ferrara)
Fri Mar 2 19:21:41 2001
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Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 19:22:09 -0500
To: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>
From: Robert Ferrara <rferrara@MIT.EDU>
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Andrew,
Thanks. You got in under the wire :-) . I'm happy to see the Training+Pubs link made, but concerned about your comment that Nautilus, which looks very appealing, might be excluded. Please fill me in whenever..
Cheers, Bob
At 06:32 PM 3/2/2001 -0500, andrew m. boardman wrote:
>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.
