[700] in Athena User Interface
Re: Athena User Interface - Monthly Delivery Report, February 2001
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Mar 3 01:08:53 2001
Message-Id: <200103030608.BAA21173@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: Robert Ferrara <rferrara@MIT.EDU>
cc: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>, aui@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Mar 2001 19:22:09 EST."
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Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 01:08:36 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> but concerned about your comment that Nautilus, which looks very
> appealing, might be excluded. Please fill me in whenever..
I'm afraid that we can't be too hopeful at this point. My experience
to date with Nautilus Preview Release 3 has revealed some problems on
top of any potential performance issues:
* It contains a lot of Linux-specific code and no way to turn
it off. So a fair amount of work would need to be done
simply to get it to build on platforms other than Linux.
* Simply running it yields a whole pile of internal assertion
failures, each of which indicates a (possibly harmless) bug
in the code. (And each of which pollutes the error output
of the program, which is a real problem for us.) So we'd
need to go bug-hunting for these assertions... and we
already have a fair amount of that to do with the other
parts of GNOME.
* A fair amount of work needs to be done just to tidy up its
configuration for the Athena environment (for instance,
right now the first time you run it it pops up a bunch of
dialogs asking if you want Eazel to help you keep your Linux
RPMs up to date).
Perhaps the Nautilus 1.0 release (supposed to be coming fairly soon)
will be better. But I'm not very optimistic.
