Re: patch for the "About GNOME" dialog box

[iain <iain prettypeople org>]

My objection to this still stands.

iain

On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 22:40, Andy Tai wrote:
> Hi,
> The attached is a patch to gnome-about.c in libgnomeui
> for your consideration.  It adds a line "GNU Network
> Object Model Environment" to the "about GNOME" dialog
> box, as well as a hyperlink from the word "GNU" to
> www.gnu.org.  I think it is a good idea to show
> explicitly what "GNOME" stands for.  Right now no
> where is the full name of GNOME displayed and that can
> be confusing to the new user.  Tbis additional display
> also helps promoting the concept of Free Software.
> 
> This patch does not modify the per-application about
> dialog box.  These two gnome-about's are separate. 
> 
> The strings are in plain English and not
> "gettextized", as I assume the text should be in
> English in this context everywhere no matter what the
> local is.
> 
> Thanks for your consideration,
> 
> Andy Tai
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