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Re: Response to Sun usability; panel config docs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Maciej Stachowiak)
Tue Jul 31 17:05:03 2001

Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:57:38 -0700
From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@noisehavoc.org>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
Cc: beland@mit.edu, amb@mit.edu, aui@mit.edu
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On 31Jul2001 07:07PM (+0000), Bill Cattey wrote:
> Beland:
> 
> We need to:
> Cook up a new draft of the note to Sun pointing them at our Usability stuff.
> Delete your .signature detail from the closing.
> Add the following two signature lines:
> 
> 	Andrew Boardman -- Athena User Interface Project Leader
> 	(amb@mit.edu)
> 
> 	William Cattey -- Leader, Athena UNIX Platform Team
> 	(wdc@mit.edu)
> 
> Reformat as you like.  Retain the content.
> 

Hey guys,

It may interest you to know that the Sun folks working on GNOME, and
the GNOME Usability Project in general are aware of the report and to
some extent trying to use it to drive fixes.

I think three great things the AUI team could do would be:

* File bugs based on problems found in usability testing. Make sure
the title of the bug describes the problem, not the proposed solution
(though including suggested solutions in the body text of the bug is
great).

* Get someone to attend the GNOME Usability Project team meetings.

* Get involved in the GNOME Usability Project; a group has been formed
to write a preliminary set of Human Interface Guidelines for GNOME and
it would be good to have more input.


Regards,

Maciej

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