[6675] in Athena Bugs
New Login
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Dec 25 05:39:21 1990
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 90 05:39:10 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: anthony@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: anthony@ATHENA.MIT.EDU's message of Fri, 30 Nov 90 05:12:27 EST <9011301012.AA07508@W20-575-74.MIT.EDU>
From: anthony@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 90 05:12:27 EST
I hate to trash a new idea, but I am personally not in favor of the
new login procedures and software. I looks "nifty" on the outside,
but I have had more problems with those new test terminals than any
other.
That's why they're "test" terminals -- there are still problems with
the software they're running, and the test period is meant to give us
a chance to work out those problems.
It appears much to slow to login, certainly slower than the
original system in my estimation.
I can guarantee to you that the new system is faster than the old on
every workstation type we support. It is probable that the reason you
experienced slowness is that the workstation you were using the VS2
test workstation -- VS2 workstations are slower than any of our other
supported workstaion types.
This may seem a petty point, but
my logout message in .Xresources is ignored on the new terminals,
but appears on the original.
This is because the logout button is now dealt with by a program
called dash, rather than by xlogout, and the resources which are used
to configure it have changed. For more information, see the man page
for dash and the file /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Dash, which shows the
default resources.
I must say, I am not in favor of
altering the system this much.
Unfortunately, the only way to make progress is to change things.
They changes that are made in 7.2 fix several problems which have been
around for a long, long time. We try to make such changes
backward-compatible, and we have succeeded in doing so for the most
part, but there are always going to be a few changes that aren't
compatible, and you've stumbled over one of those.
Jonathan Kamens
Project Athena Quality Assurance
