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[Lucas Baudin <xapantu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Why do we need it at all? We could have a single place with all the
about things, in a Details panel in Switchboard for instance. We don't
need it, it doesn't bring anything to the user, and I doubt that anyone
is reading it.

Lucas

Le mardi 29 mai 2012 à 19:32 +0200, Andrea Basso a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I agree, it's something we need to solve, it's pointless and quite ugly to  
> have the appmenu only for the About item.
> 
> On the other hand I'm not sure the quicklist is the most suited place. I  
> don't know, the quicklist is to save time, to launch the app in a  
> different way, not really to interact with it. Midori does have a "New  
> Tab" item in quicklist, but I for one have never used it, and I think  
> almost everyone else has never did. Once an app is started and running,  
> you're not supposed and you don't think it's possible to interact with it  
> via the quicklist.
> 
> I don't really know how to integrate it into eOS, but I feel the best way  
> to proceed is to have an external menu, something a la Gnome Shell. It  
> would be a place where the user can always find the about dialog, it  
> solves problem with apps that don't need a toolbar and increases  
> compatibility a lot (with Gnome apps and since it's external we could even  
> have normal gtk apps use it, like Ubuntu does with the global menu).
> 
> Regards,
> Andrea Basso
> 
> On Tue, 29 May 2012 18:56:55 +0200, 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
>