Re: About Panels - aka lynching time

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:33, Dominic Howells wrote:

> Hummm. Although that is probably better than the current location it
> strikes me that (and I think this has been mentioned on the list before)
> `Help' is really not the best place for `About', afterall its not
> exactly _helpful_ is it.

True, although that's partly because we've kind of deviated from the
original purpose of About boxes (as have many desktops before us)-- it
was originally supposed to describe what the app was for and that sort
of thing, but that doesn't seem to be very fashionable any more...

Cheeri,
Calum.

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