Re: [gnome-love] GNOME Goal: Update About Dialogs

["Diego Escalante Urrelo" <diegoe gnome org>]

Hey :)

On 5/20/07, Luis Menina <liberforce fr st> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> This a request for comments for the GNOME Goals project, which aims at
> improving desktop consistency, and helping newcommers to get involved in
> the GNOME community.
>
> We're trying to launch a new GNOME Goal to migrate the about boxes to
> the GtkAboutBox API that came way back (in GTK 2.6). You can find the
> proposal here:
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/AboutDialog
>
> There are however for the moment a few blocking problems.
>
> 1. The way the license is handled
> ==================================
>
> There is an enhancement request for usual licences support in
> GtkAboutDialog: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336225
>
> We have 3 choices:
> * Copy/paste the license text in each project in the "license" property
> * Wait until the API for usual licenses is implemented and use the
> "license-name" property (volunteers ?)
No need to hurry, I would just wait.

> * Use a copy/pasted version, then launch a new Goal when the API is
> ready (overkill IMHO).
>
> 2. The text to use for the website URL
> ======================================
> If an usability guru reads that, should we use as text for the link to
> the application's project:
> * the rough URL of the project,
> * or a text like "XYApp Web Site" ?
XYApp Web Site looks nicer, I don't think it's important to show the
target url at all.
In any case, you could show that info with a tooltip (if it's
possible/makes sense).

> Please add your comment in replying to this mail, or in the "Comments"
> section of this GNOME Goal proposal at
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/AboutDialog
>
> Thank you
>
> Luis Menina
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