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Legacy Features

• DESUPPORT Athena users can run an old desktop interface based on dash and mwm instead of GNOME if they have opted to do so.
• DESUPPORT Athena users can elect to run Sawfish (an outdated GNOME window manager) instead of Metacity.
• DONE Users can read mail with the nmh command suite (currently uses kpop).
• DESUPPORT Users can browse the web with Mozilla instead of Firefox. Mozilla can also be used to read mail and edit HTML files.

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Current solution: The athena-dash package provides the dash software, as well as a set of fallback software menus in /usr/athena/lib/Dash.fallback and a symlink to the (theoretically but not actually) maintained-in-AFS menus in /usr/athena/lib/Dash.menus. We use the native RHEL 4 mwm from the openmotif package, but the athena-ws package installs a /usr/lib/X11/system.mwmrc.athena file and overwrites the standard configuration file with it. xlogin has an option to log in with the dash interface. The athena-revert-to-dash package provides a dialog which will create ~/.athena_dash_interface, and the standard Athena GNOME system menu has an entry to run this program. The xsession in the athena-dotfiles package has conditional logic to honor these indications and invoke mwm and dash instead of GNOME software.

Planned solution: Continue to provide debathena-dash since it's cheap to do so (though it will have to be renamed, since the name dash is now taken up by a shell in modern Ubuntu and Debian). Provide an debathena-mwm-config to overwrite the system mwm configuration. Continue to honor ~/.athena_dash_interface. Eliminate revert-to-dash and the dash login option.

Status: Not done.

Milestone: Feature Complete (one day).

Desupport this.

Status: Done.

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Current solution: The athena-gnome-vfs2 package is locally modified with a change to make trash handling work when the homedir is a symlink to a directory on another device and to support moving files between devices in the gnome_vfs_xfer function.

Planned solution: It looks like we will be forced to make a similar change to the native libgnomevfs2 package, since this still appears to be a problem in upstream code. We should try to get a fix into GNOME to resolve this problem upstream.

Status: Not done.

The failures previously addressed in local modifications no longer seem to occur, though we have not yet identified the specific upstream modifications that changed the relevant behaviors.

Status: DoneMilestone: Feature Complete (one day for local fix, another for upstream patch submission).

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• The login option to use the dash interface is no longer supported, nor is the script to revert to dash. ~/.athena_dash_interface is still will not be honored.

• The Kerberized rlogin, rsh, telnet, and ftp daemons are no longer supported. The clients are still provided.

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