On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 20:53 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote: > I've thought about getting rid of About dialogs before because most are > badly used and fail to tell you about the program. As a beginner tried > using About dialogs and what I most wanted to know was something like > "This is a Word Procesor", "This is an Image Viewer". Thankfully the > GtkAbout dialog does as much as it possible can to get developers to > provide a sane About dialog with useful information that users can easily > cut and paste out of there if they need to.
>From what I have seen in testings, most users pay little to no attention to the about dialogs. I really don't see this as a problem personally and in fact I think it would be a shame to steal take this issue away from developers. The reason I say this is because the about gives a great place to show the contributions people have made as well as offer the user a chance to see the open source method in action. Since it doesn't get in the way it seems like a great place for developers to add a little bit of their own personality and get a well deserved moment of fame. Just my two cents on the issue. Eric _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
