Re: [Usability] About Me Applet

[Steven Garrity <stevelist silverorange com>]

Neil wrote:
> Well, I think instead of getting rid of it, it should simply be used. 
> The reason it's not being used, I imagine, is because not all programs
> are Gnome exclusive (and they shouldn't be), and this is a Gnome
> exclusive feature.
>
> One way to handle this that I can think of right now (and I haven't
> slept in a while, so forgive me if unfogged minds find this stupid) is
> to have a sort of unified standard for DEs to provide user information
> and a standard way for programs to call the information from whatever DE
> is active and then let it be used however.  [snip]

Is this really a problem that needs to be solved, though? I'm not sure I 
enter this type of information into any of one my applications, let 
alone a whole slew of them.

Cheers,
Steven Garrity