Re: App menu Help/About consistency

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 13:35 +0000, Allan Day wrote:
> Hey Michael!
>
> Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org> wrote:
> > Many of our apps put Help above About in the app menu, but many put
> > About above Help.  Many of the About labels are "About <app name>", but
> > many omit the app name. Many place a separator between Help/About
> > (whichever is last) and Quit, but many don't.
>
> You're not the first to ask that question... ;)
>
> > Can we define a proper way of handling these standard elements? Every
> > detail matters....
>
> Sure, that's what I've been working to do with the new HIG, which has
> a page on application menus [1].
>
> I don't have a massively strong opinion on the label used for the
> about item, or how help/about/quit should be grouped. I just went with
> what feels right to me. Discussion is welcome, and all that.

FWIW, I think that core apps shouldn't have an about menu item at all,
and it's what I've done in Totem^WVideos for example.

Cheers