I dunno I think Christian has the right idea here. If it's different enough to warrant it's own About, then it should probably be it's own binary, separate package, etc.
Best Regards, Daniel Foré www.elementaryos.org On Jul 30, 2011, at 1:42 PM, xapantu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hum, it was a good idea to send a mail here before merging apparently... > > The problem is the principle, I don't like having pre-configurated menuitems, > with a global variable (which is a GraniteApplication that no one uses > AFAIK). The bazaar explorer was just an example. We can also take an office > suite with different application but the same binary, or something like that. > > The problem is that technically, we can't have an AppMenu with different > About items in the same binary for example. So, it seems that it is clearly a > limitation, that we could easily avoided if there was a way to configure the > items. And the global variable is a bad thing, I think everyone will agree > that ;) > > I will make a patch tomorrow to show what I mean, because I think I am not > very clear ^^ > > On 07/30/2011 08:13 PM, Daniel Fore wrote: >> Hmm, I think the Appmenu should only really be used on the app's main >> window really. It's supposed to contain only actions which apply to >> the app globally. So everything it could contain would be duplicated >> across windows, wouldn't it? >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Daniel Foré >> >> http://www.elementaryos.org >> >> >> >> >> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:25 AM, xapantu<[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> So, currently, there are some hardcoded menuitem in it, which come from a >>> global application variable, that only maya uses AFAIK. I want to use an >>> AppMenu for a bazaar explorer, that I will embed in Euclide. >>> >>> But I don't want to re-add an "About" and "Report a problem" items, since >>> they are already in the main AppMenu. So, I would like to remove that from >>> the AppMenu, or at least to add an option which disable them by default. >>> >>> The code is here: lp:~xapantu/granite/appmenu >>> >>> Opinions? >>> >>> If everything is ok, I will merge it... >>> >>> -- >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
