[Dextrose] [Sugar-devel] [AC Update] We are what we do.

David Van Assche dvanassche at gmail.com
Sat Apr 2 07:16:23 EDT 2011


The more info the better... information shouldn't kill people.....
(read shouldn't)

David Van Assche

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:05 AM, NoiseEHC <NoiseEHC at freemail.hu> wrote:
>>
>>>> "About pane" has a psychological effect, it provides recognition and
>>>> maybe a sense of ownership for developers and mantainers. I will
>>>> propose it on sugar-devel and the HIG once I've implemented a design.
>>>> Also it gives a starting point for eventually getting involved in the
>>>> development and improvement of each activity.
>>>
>>> The idea of an About dialog (or menu) already came up on sugar-devel,
>>> not long ago. IIRC, Gary Martin was quite opposed to increasing UI
>>> clutter with non-essential information.
>>>
>>> Perhaps we could still define a few meta-tags for activity.info and
>>> _not_ display them in the UI at all? They would still be easy to find
>>> for developers.
>>
>> You can show this info in view source mode and in the journal.
>
> Or perhaps in the Detail View in the Journal, where we already show
> things like mime-type? And perhaps we could even add the ability to
> launch Browse from the Detail View to go to the activity's homepage?
>
> -walter
>
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