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Adding About dialog as a quicklist item sounds like a good idea
regardless.  I think dialog should be reachable from AppMenu for those
apps with one.  We should discourage apps w/o a toolbar from adding an
AppMenu to make the About dialog discoverable.

--ttosttos


On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:56 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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