Re: App menu Help/About consistency

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 08:46 +0100, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote:
> Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 20:00 +0100, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote:
> > > It's not only the version number, but additional information, for
> > > example Epiphany shows the WebKit version, and Evince shows the
> > > document
> > > backend in use and its version as well.
> > All of which are fairly important when working on bugs. gnome-abrt (or
> > some future Oops) is not ready to handle this, will not work outside
> > Fedora within the foreseeable future, and will not be included in
> > many/most distributions ever.
>
> And not all bugs are crashes fortunately :-), the poppler or webkit version
> used by evince and ephy is quite important for rendering bugs, for example.

It can also be gathered automatically, that's what the
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-ExtraInfoScript field in desktop files was there for,
back in the day.

The bug reporting application should use that script, on top of common
information like build information (eg. package versions) of the app
itself and of its dependencies.