Re: About box redesign

[Alan <alan ufies org>]

On 12-Sep-2000 Liam Quin wrote:
> I have long missed the days when an About box gave you a short
> summary of what the program did.
> 
> If I see help->About, I want to erad about the program, not about
> the people who sold it to me.
> 
> I'd like to see help->about say
>       gnome-carpet 1.4.3
> 
>       yse gnome-carpet to search the carpet in your bedroom for
>       gnomes hiding in the pile.  Gnome-carpet will not remove the
>       gnomes, but can optionally call gnome-vacuum to do that.
> 
>       [contributors...] [webpage...] [report bug...] [dismiss this window]
> 
> where first the buttons might also be help menu items where appropriate.

Excellent point.  This idea would work nicely with the tabbed box suggested
earlier.  The "contributors/webpage/report bug" could be tabs (along with
authors, translations etc).  Hell, let the user define about box tab position
via the gnome control panel! :)

my $0.02



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