Re: About Panels - aka lynching time

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 06:34, Damon Chaplin wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 02:07, Glynn Foster wrote:
> 
> > So, while I love all the panel maintainers [they all rock], would there
> > be objection to removing the 'About Panels' entry and the entire about
> > dialog? Or indeed, would there be any better way to promote 'About
> > GNOME'?
> 
> If it was up to me I'd remove both of them. They just clog up the popup
> menu, and don't really belong there. (How often are they used??)

<nod>

> Also, it's a ridiculous place to have the 'About GNOME' dialog!
> That stuff should be in the help pages, probably along with GNOME
> support information.

I'm not sure that I agree that it should be in the docs, but the current
location is definitely suboptimal- it manages to simultaneously make the
right click menu more cluttered and less useful, and lower the
visibility of the dialog. Maybe it belongs in one of the menu-bar menus?

Luis