[Usability] About Menu Items Proposal

[Steven Garrity <stevelist silverorange com>]

As it stands, most Gnome desktops have two About items on the 
System/Desktop menu. One is About Gnome, the other is About 
[Distro-name] (Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.).

Two menu items for such infrequently accessed, but necessary, 
information seems unnecessary.

I would like to propose these two menu items be merged into one "About 
this Computer" menu item. Under this item, both the Gnome information 
*and* the distro-specific information would be shown.

I'm not sure how best to show both Gnome and Distro info in one window 
would be. It could be a split screen, show one by default with a button 
for the other, or have tabs, like we do for "Written by" and "Translated 
by" in the Credits box in many apps.

Merging these could items together would make a frequently used menu 
(also contains Shutdown, Logout, Help, etc.) one item smaller, and 
hence, a little bit easier to use.


I have also posted this proposal on the wiki for people to add 
links/info/comments/issues: 
http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityTeam/AboutMenuItems

So, does it make any sense?

Thanks,
Steven Garrity