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[Alfredo Hernández <aldomann.designs@xxxxxxxxx>]

While your solution is good and easy to implement, I don't think that
having a persistent '?' icon in a top corner of the title bar is a good
implementation for launching a rarely used dialogue, it goes against
elementary's simpliticy.

On 30 May 2012 04:47, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff <sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> > The problem is, How do we provide a way to access the About dialog in a
> > consistent and sane manner without requiring a (gear) menu?
>
> Plank does that on right-clicking it on any empty space. Maybe we
> could adopt that. Not sure if it's a good idea or not; even for
> docklets right-clicking the launcher seems to be more discoverable.
>
> Another option is a small (?) button in a corner, I believe Eidete has
> something like that?
>
> Any other ideas?
>
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> Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
> OS integrator @ elementary
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