Agreed that an "about this activity" (credits, license, etc) UI element should be standard. This should be part of a ubiquitous help button, which would become part of the standard activity toolbar. When clicked, it opens a localized .html file from within the activity bundle. It could open in Browse, or else a modal dialog.
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche <c...@msbit.com> wrote: > This brings up an issue I have been thinking about, since the SynPhony > database comprises several "with attribution" components. Would it make > sense to have a common design element that was "about <activity>" or > "credits" that would allow contributions to be acknowledged? Leaving aside > whether it is a license requirement I think it is good practice to show > Sugar users, aka kids, that some people cared enough to build this stuff, > and that if they build stuff they can receive acknowledgement too. > > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Simon Schampijer <si...@schampijer.de>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> we did show a full license in the Control Panel before. The path was >> hard coded to where OLPC had placed the GPL license. What can we do to >> meet the expectations of all the distributions that want to ship sugar? >> >> Thanks for inputs on this, >> Simon >> >> http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/357 >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > > > > -- > "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary > depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > >
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