Re: [Usability] About Menu Items Proposal

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 17:57 -0300, Steven Garrity wrote:
> Calum Benson wrote:
> > Well, the OpenSolaris-based distros should be happy enough, as JDS is
> > already doing this anyway-- we just have an "About Java Desktop System"
> > menu item now.  That opens a slightly-modified gnome-about dialog that
> > includes both GNOME and distro-specific credits, licence and version
> > info, much as Steven is suggesting.
> 
> Calum,
> Could you post a screenshot of the menu and the About window on JDS?

Our OpenSolaris/2.16 builds are very much work-in-progress, but for now
we've decanted "About JDS" to the System Tools menu:
http://www.gnome.org/~calum/about-menu.png

On the Apps/Places/System menu, it still sits immediately below "Help":
http://www.gnome.org/~calum/about-system.png

The dialog itself is just the standard gnome-about, except that our
licensing information scrolls into view first, before the usual GNOME
roll-call etc:
http://www.gnome.org/~calum/about-2.16.png

We'll likely do a bit more branding on this at some stage, e.g. our JDS3
version looked like this (minus the corruption!):
http://www.gnome.org/~calum/about-jds3.png

Cheeri,
Calum.

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