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[Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I really don't like the idea of adding app-related things in Switchboard.
It should only be for system settings IMO.

But you're right, it's not for users. It's mainly for developers, support
techs, testers, translators, etc.

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Lucas Baudin <xapantu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
> >
>
>
>
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-- 
Best Regards,

Daniel Foré

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