Re: [Usability] "About" menu items galore...

[Eric Larson <elarson novell com>]

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 20:53 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> I've thought about getting rid of About dialogs before because most are
> badly used and fail to tell you about the program.  As a beginner tried
> using About dialogs and what I most wanted to know was something like
> "This is a Word Procesor", "This is an Image Viewer". Thankfully the
> GtkAbout dialog does as much as it possible can to get developers to
> provide a sane About dialog with useful information that users can easily
> cut and paste out of there if they need to.

>From what I have seen in testings, most users pay little to no attention
to the about dialogs. I really don't see this as a problem personally
and in fact I think it would be a shame to steal take this issue away
from developers. The reason I say this is because the about gives a
great place to show the contributions people have made as well as offer
the user a chance to see the open source method in action. Since it
doesn't get in the way it seems like a great place for developers to add
a little bit of their own personality and get a well deserved moment of
fame. Just my two cents on the issue. 

Eric