Re: GNOME branding, recruiting, and identity [was Re: [Usability]Definition of "desktop" - was a Usability topic.]

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>]

On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 15:24, Luis Villa wrote:
> Glynn had a fun new GNOME About box a little while back; I suggested
> (privately) it have links to www.gnome.org, developer.gnome.org, and a
> couple other places, with text along the lines of 'GNOME is a big, happy
> community; here is how you can help us make a kick-ass desktop.' [Full
> text of my suggested modifications are around somewhere, if anyone
> cares.] Would that be a reasonable start, if someone has time to tackle
> doing a newer, more informative about box?
> 

Another issue with the current about gnome box is that it is completely
hidden from the user in the panel context menu. There was some talk
about adding a help menu to the foobar that would include a launcher for
yelp, pehaps a launcher for bug buddy and the about gnome box. The
usability team never really came to a solution if it should be added or
not. The patch is really trivial and imo constitutes a ui change rather
than a feature addition so i think we could sneak it in to gnome2.2 if
we decided that we wanted it. I can hunt down the bugzilla bug later if
need be.

dave