Bastien Nocera <[email protected]> writes:

> On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 14:56 +0002, Yosef Or Boczko wrote:
>> I disagree.
>> 
>> We need a place with the names of the developers and the
>> name of the app.
>
> The name of the app is already in the top bar, and the name of the
> developers for core apps is "GNOME project".

In that case we could keep the about dialog, for consistency with
non-core applications, and to show other useful information (website,
real app name, version, etc.) and use "The GNOME project" in the author
field. I still think translators deserve credit, so I would leave the
list of translators too.

>> If the name of totem is 'Videos' in the UI, and someone want
>> to visit in the web of totem, to repo bug or to contribute, he
>> need the about dialog to know the right name is 'totem', so
>> he know from where to start.
>
> Using the problem reporting application.
>
>> Also, the about dialog is the place to five credit to the developers
>> and to the translators (ans also to the designers).
>
> By that token, we should probably include everyone that works on every
> bit of technology that the application relies on. That's just not
> feasible.
>
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