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Re: About Dialog

 

It sounds reasonable. I like the idea, but how would the preferences be
implemented without an AppMenu?

Alfedo Hernández

On 29 May 2012 19:26, Allen Lowe <lallenlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> +10 from me!
>
> Allen Lowe
>
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Hey Guys,
> >
> > When we first did the AppMenu, I think we felt that having only a single
> > menu for an app was being extremely optimistic about it's design. But it
> > seems that even so, some of the apps that have been built for elementary
> > (Switchboard, Eidete, etc) are so contextual and awesome that they don't
> > need an AppMenu at all except for a single item: About.
> >
> > What I'd like to propose is moving "About" into a quicklist item. I think
> > this would make sense because it's About the App not just the current
> > Window, and it would give us a consistent place to put this item (that
> I'm
> > pretty sure we all want for all of our apps) without requiring
> > yet-another-otherwise-useless-piece-of-UI.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Daniel Foré
> >
> > elementaryos.org
> >
> >
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