Re: About box redesign

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

thristian atdot org wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 12:37:25AM +0200, Christian Rose wrote:
> > So what do you all think? Do you like tabs? Do you like auto-scrolling
> > information? Suggestions? Comments?
> 
> I can't think of much else to say at the moment, but if you intend the
> information to be *useful* (i.e. for accountability: "Spanish
> translation broken? Mail foo bar es") then auto-scrolling would be a
> bad thing. Make a read-only textbox with a scrollbar or something so
> you can go directly to the "Spanish translation" section, and not have
> to wait five minutes for it to come around again.

The idea was that the information about the translation to the current
locale should be on the "main tab" together with the rest of the author
information, and not only on the "all contributors" tab. If you don't
use Spanish, you're probably not that interested in who translated the
app into it (--> "all contributors"), but if you use Spanish, it is
really important info (--> also on the "main tab").

I think that the list of all contributors could still be
auto-scrollable, since I don't think that "all contributors" is _that_
important information, even if it is nice.

Of course providing some means for controlling the scrolling could be
nice. What about a single-click in the scrolling window to stop it? And
another click to start it again? I don't think that it desparately needs
a visual hint.

And I agree with all of you, all information should be copyable. The
e-mail adresses and web addresses could probably be "linked" and using
the gnome handlers for such addresses, but the should still be
selectable and copyable.

Comments?


Christian



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Christian Rose
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