[864] in Athena User Interface
Re: Follow- up to Sun-Gnome-HCI note.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Sep 29 10:32:27 2001
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To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
cc: aui@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Sep 2001 22:42:52 -0000."
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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:32:24 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> I'm not sure the best way to proceed in trying to interest
> GNOME-central in our icons.
The icons should probably stay local; although GNOME has a real
problem here, our icons are probably not the solution. While they are
much more usable than the GNOME set, they don't fit in visually with a
stock GNOME desktop.
> We ended up adopting a subset of all that GNOME had to offer. Our
> users got essentially 3 changes:
> 1. A nicer looking default desktop look.
> 2. panel
> 3. sawfish as a new window manger.
The control center might be worth listing here.
> GNOME applications that we tried and which seemed robust, like GNOME
> calculater, we adopted. Applications that duplicated functionality
> but did not add substantial value, we left out. For example, we use
> XplayCD on Linux, not the Gnome CD player.
The process was somewhat less organized than this: I integrated the
parts of GNOME which were necessary for panel, and then later
integrated gnome-utils because I needed something from it. The
calculator probably came with gnome-utils. In general the rule was to
include only what we needed.
> Likewise with session management, we turned it off because we could
> not get it stable and predictable on all 3 platforms. We hope that
> we can turn it on next year.
As far as I know we have made no plans to investigate GNOME session
management for the next release. It would be of some value to have
session managment, if only so that applications could clean up at
logout time, but our resources might be better spent elsewhere.
