[761] in Athena User Interface
Removal of extra entries; Athena help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Fri May 11 16:17:15 2001
Message-Id: <200105112017.QAA57829@m1-142-13.mit.edu>
To: ajfox@MIT.EDU, aurora@MIT.EDU
cc: aui@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 16:17:04 -0400
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
I was just looking through Abby's menu tree and some old notes
documenting the differences between AUI and 9.0. I noticed that two
RPMs, gnome-pim, and gnome-media, didn't make it into the release.
This affects the following menu items:
Editing and Publishing -> Personal Info Managers
Address Book / gnomecard [gnome-pim RPM]
Gnome Calendar / gnomecal [gnome-pim RPM]
Multimedia: Audio -> Volume
gMix / gmix [gnome-media RPM]
Multimedia: Audio -> CD Players
Gtcd (Linux) / gtcd [gnome-media RPM]
The gnomecal entry can be redirected to the gnomecal binary in the
outland locker, if anyone cares about it. (ical is probably a
perfectly good substitute). I wouldn't miss gnomecard either.
gtcd, on the other hand, is far better than the closest substitute,
which would be xplaycd (included in the Linux distribution). It has a
much nicer user interface, is less flaky, and does CDDB lookup, which
is very handy. I also like gmix better than its substitute, xmixer.
But I'm sure there are probably higher priorities than having the best
CD player on Athena; if there are no plans to include the gnome-media
package in the release, then these menu entries should be changed to
point at their vanilla replacements.
I also note that the gnome-users-guide RPM has not been included in
the release. This might be intentional, to prevent users from being
confused by the differences between Redhat-Gnome and Athena-Gnome.
However, starting up gnome-help-browser (which is on the menus) still
gives you a page
(/usr/athena/share/gnome/help/help-browser/C/default.html) which
features prominently a broken link to the Gnome User's Guide. Since
this page is actually already part of the release, it could be changed
to point to Athena documentation instead. But this dilutes the idea
of a universal access point and/or tool for Athena Help, and only
complicates the question about how the help in general should be
organized.
The minutes to the last menu meeting (sorry I couldn't make it!)
suggested I chat with Heather about this sort of thing anyway.
Perhaps we could get together sometime next week?
-B.
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