[gnome-builder] about: use symbolic release identifier (40.alpha1)

[Christian Hergert <chergert src gnome org>]

commit d552a8234014e543f973e1c2037c950dcfe68735
Author: Christian Hergert <chergert redhat com>
Date:   Thu Feb 18 13:25:10 2021 -0800

    about: use symbolic release identifier (40.alpha1)

 meson.build                              | 3 +++
 src/libide/gui/ide-application-actions.c | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 379ea32fb..05db0cad9 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ project('gnome-builder', 'c',
                    ],
 )
 
+symbolic_release = '40.alpha1'
+
 version_split = meson.project_version().split('.')
 MAJOR_VERSION = version_split[0]
 MINOR_VERSION = version_split[1]
@@ -75,6 +77,7 @@ status += [
 ]
 
 config_h = configuration_data()
+config_h.set_quoted('SYMBOLIC_RELEASE', symbolic_release)
 config_h.set_quoted('PACKAGE_NAME', 'gnome-builder')
 config_h.set_quoted('PACKAGE_ABI_S', libide_api_version)
 config_h.set('PACKAGE_ABI', libide_api_version)
diff --git a/src/libide/gui/ide-application-actions.c b/src/libide/gui/ide-application-actions.c
index 5f46c581c..c06d8c76b 100644
--- a/src/libide/gui/ide-application-actions.c
+++ b/src/libide/gui/ide-application-actions.c
@@ -127,12 +127,12 @@ ide_application_actions_about (GSimpleAction *action,
         }
     }
 
-  version = g_string_new (NULL);
+  version = g_string_new (SYMBOLIC_RELEASE);
 
   if (!g_str_equal (IDE_BUILD_TYPE, "release"))
-    g_string_append (version, IDE_BUILD_IDENTIFIER);
+    g_string_append (version, "\n(" IDE_BUILD_IDENTIFIER ")");
   else
-    g_string_append (version, PACKAGE_VERSION);
+    g_string_append (version, "\n(" PACKAGE_VERSION ")");
 
   if (g_strcmp0 (IDE_BUILD_CHANNEL, "other") != 0)
     g_string_append (version, "\n" IDE_BUILD_CHANNEL);