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[Lucas Baudin <xapantu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, we can also include something like gnome-about, if it is really a
problem...

Le mardi 29 mai 2012 à 12:37 -0700, Daniel Foré a écrit :
> 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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> 
> Daniel Foré
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