Hey :) On 5/20/07, Luis Menina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > gnome-love mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
